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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:57 AM
Subject: Fractures in Iraq City as Kurds and Baghdad Vie
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:57 AM
Subject: Fractures in Iraq City as Kurds and Baghdad Vie
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
While senator McCain crows prematurely about "success" in Iraq, our policies play out differently in reality. Two years after we switched to arming and backing local sectarian factions to patrol their own regions, these factions show no interest in surrendering to a strong national government. We are again faced with choosing between watching Iraq fly apart into bloody partition, or staying indefinitely to enforce a truce. The current administration envisioned a permanent American military presence in Iraq, and senator McCain has given no indication that he would change that course. Those of us who don't want our grandchildren to be patrolling occupied Baghdad can express that next Tuesday.
Barry Levine
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