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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I am certain that Europe appreciated our “occupying”
of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Germany</st1:place></st1:country-region>
during the Cold War. I can guarantee you if we had withdrawn our troops
from Germany during the height of the Cold War (1960’s), the Fulda Gap
would have been flooded with inbound Soviet armor. The only land that I
can recall occupying in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region>
were a few barstools at the Gasthof Wildermann in <st1:place w:st="on">Nurnberg</st1:place>
and a soft warm bed in Zirndorf in the company of . . . (well . . . that was
another time) . . .<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>As far as <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Cuba</st1:place></st1:country-region> is concerned, I can’t
really say. I assume that our bases there (i.e. <st1:City w:st="on">Guantanamo</st1:City>,
etc.) are there primarily as <st1:place w:st="on">Caribbean</st1:place> “observation
posts”.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Tom <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>We could learn a lot from crayons: some are
sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are
different colors....but they all exist very nicely in the same box. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> vision2020-bounces@moscow.com
[mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Tbertruss@aol.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, September 27, 2004
7:30 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> predator75@moscow.com;
sunilramalingam@hotmail.com; vision2020@moscow.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020] <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Saudi Arabia</st1:place></st1:country-region>:
Free and Fair Elections?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:Arial'><br>
DC:<br>
<br>
We have military bases there, but we are not "occupying" <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Japan</st1:country-region>
or <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cuba</st1:place></st1:country-region>
with troops and tanks in their streets. In <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">South Korea</st1:place></st1:country-region>, we have a more active
military presence, actually guarding a border, but this is with the relatively
stable South Korean government's permission.<br>
<br>
I am pointing out that we could be militarily "occupying" Iraq for
decades to prevent all hell from breaking loose (as if with us there now all
hell is not breaking loose!). I doubt that if we leave the security of <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> to Iraqis
that we will see a democratic system emerge. If we really withdraw and
leave the country to whatever the Iraqis come up with, we will see a brutal
civil war or another brutal dictatorship.<br>
<br>
Ted Moffett</span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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