From: vsd76@hotmail.com   
      
   "John Rennie"    
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   > > Thanks for your frankness... In return, I can tell you I don't care   
   much,   
   > > because I don't expect much difference in the US policy whatever the   
   > result   
   > > of the election is.   
   >   
   > That's the real tragedy.   Now they're in, how can they get out of Iraq   
   > with any sort of credibility?   Do they hand over to the UN who   
   > certainly won't want the job unless they are in charge?   I fear   
   > Bush and his cohorts are ostriches, they don't see what the   
   > sane world sees.   Although the situations are vastly different   
   > this IS in many ways another Vietnam.   Iraq is a weight that is   
   > going to hang around America's neck for perhaps a couple of   
   > decades and her final retreat from Iraq will be as humiliating as   
   > that from Vietnam.   
      
   My point wasn't limited to Iraq, John, but I believe you're right on Iraq as   
   well. I remember I evoked in January the possibility for a possible US   
   involvement in Iraq to end up as a fiasco, under extremist chiite terrorist   
   attacks. Like in Lebanon and in Somalia, the US would withdraw after a   
   particularly bloody attack against them. Just imagine such an attack takes   
   place a few weeks before the 2004 elections...   
      
   Once again, this is pure speculation. Future may show I mistook and I hope   
   it will... but for the time being, I see more reasons to be as pessimistic   
   as I am, than to share Jigsaw's optimism on world peace (I'd almost believe   
   he just watched "Miss Congeniality").   
      
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