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Just as the intafada of Hamas and Arafat declared in 2000 has failed, the terrorism in Iraq will fade out, hopefully sooner than later. I imagine that in a year, Iraq will be mentioned in the press about as often as Kosovo is now ( how many years have we been there now, I don't hear Dan Rather and Peter Jennings complaining about an exit strategy there). Hopefully we will have the resolve to see the situation in Iraq through to the end. History will remember this as ultimately a good deed, and helping to free the tortured, terrorized and maligned Iraqis from an evil dictator, not that it is actually something our government is instructed to do by that one document, what was it called again....Now if we could only help the maligned taxpayers bearing the burden of defunct and failing Social security and welfare programs.