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Re: Taking Basra
As I understand it the current move is not into the city but to establish control around it while the Iraqi army take action against the militias inside. I see this not as an extra burden on our troops but as a chance to see that the hard work they have previously done is now bearing fruit as the Iraqi's start taking control of their own security. Unless this is successful Colin Powell is, regrettably, right; we can't just leave and dump the Iraqi's into a civil war on top of all the damage we have already done.
And no, I wasn't in favour of the war, but I think that having gone in it is our responsibility to try and sort out the mess. If we were to leave now it would get much worse.
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