"Joe" wrote in message
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Here is a letter from LTC Tim Ryan ......

Thank you for posting it again. I don't question the veracity of the
colonel's information or opinions but I do suggest that he is so lost among
the trees that he cannot see the forest. The big picture shows that, when
all is said and done, the Iraqis bravely elected a majority of delegates who
promised to give them a Muslim republic just like Iran's - that the Shia
majority are eager to trade the religious freedom imposed on them by Saddam
for the yoke of religious law as interpreted by their ayatollahs. Is this
what Americans wanted or were led to expect? Will the USA or Israel be
more secure with an Iranian type government in Iraq? We'll know in a year
or two, right?