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I have no evidence that Iraqis would welcome more troops nor did I ever make such an assertion. You have used faulty logic here in tying my comments to such an assertion.

Iraqis have not been particularly thrilled about the invasion thus far and I have reason to believe that they would welcome more troops. I am not even advocating sending more troops.

I believe that Kerry understands more, by orders of magnitude, about what it will take to ensure that there is some semblance of a civilization to give back to the Iraqi people. Much more than Bush. I also believe that he may be saying things now for the benefit of people in swing states that he may not carry out exactly once he is elected. I believe that Kerry knows that by packing up and leaving Iraq we would be doing more to rub salt in the proverbial wound that Mr. Bush and his cabal inflicted.

He may even, in a much more diplomatic way, allow some international energy companies go in and divide up the oil supply. That would be war profiteering, yes. Whatever he does I give him a full vote of confidence that it will be heads and shoulders better than what the current Resident in Chief has done in Iraq.