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Saturday, April 12, 2003
posted by gbarto at 12:36 PM:
MARINES, IRAQIS TO JOINTLY PATROL BAGHDAD;TOP SADDAM ADVISER SURRENDERS
Though there are some dangers, the joint patrols strike me as a good approach in that it will enable us to rapidly beginning turning one part of Iraqi society back over to Iraq, and the faster we can get them looking after their country themselves the better. Saddam had to go, but that doesn't mean we want to replace him; to the contrary, having one more thugocracy turn into a place hostile to terrorism - while releasing enough oil onto the markets to drop prices a little bit - is more than enough reward for our efforts, thank you.
To make it clear, this is going to be neither our Vietnam nor France's Algeria because this was neither a holding action nor colonialism (as the first Gulf War sort of turned out to be) and the Iraqi people seem to be figuring that out.
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