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Thanks much for the clarification. Now that I believe the report is accurate; it's the tactic that's bull$hit. What are we thinking? If I were a young person of military service age right now and I was thinking of joining up to serve MY COUNTRY and heard this, I would run, not walk, from the recruitment center. Can you imagine signing up to stand guard in a hell-forsaken country under the auspices of the UN? Am I missing something here? And BTW, can Rumsfeld answer a question straight - not like Dr. Seuss, just once, when pressed on an issue he doesn't like? Our troops are being picked off daily, and when pressed, he says 'well, we are suffering scattered attacks.' 'It's 'messy'. If it were his son or daughter, it wouldn't be called 'MESSY'!!!!

Yes I think you may be missing the tactic...

You know they have been on a great push to get other countries to send troops to help rebuild Iraq with little response. It may be a smart international move to call it "peacekeeping" to get more countries to sign up and save US alot of lives and money. We do not have enough troops and Rumsfeld unquestionably knows that. This is more about recruitment for international support and also a peaceful way to get the world to reevalute the UN's ineffective roll...