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Old 04-01-2003, 11:13 AM   #18
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Originally posted by Paul Victorey
Look at Afghanistan -- outside of Kabul, the Taliban laws still hold almost everywhere. Our new government has no strength at all, their decrees are ignored outside the capital city.
The "new" Afghani government is only days old. One could have said the same thing in 1776 about the "new" U.S. government. It was 200 years before a man could safely walk down the street in "most" of the country without a 6-gun at his side.

So a worst scenario for Iraq would have Kurd, Shia, Sunni, & whatever else fighting each other into eternity. Even here the worst threat of today's Iraq (IMHO) would still have been eliminated. Saddam's chemical, biological, & developing nuclear threat would be gone and no longer available to share with terrorists.
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