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Old 07-18-2007, 15:28 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by astralis View Post
Let's add one more link to the logical chain (which the NIE leaves out but which is self-evident): If there were no U.S. occupation of Iraq, there would be no AQI.
His verb tenses are wrong, although he corrects himself later on by not proposing what would be the next link in the "logical chain." It should read "if there had been no US occupation of Iraq." As written above, the logical conclusion is to just get out and AQI goes away.
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