FOUR MORE YEARS?: AS CIVILIAN CASUALTIES CLIMB, THE U.S. MAKES PLANS TO KEEP 140,000 TROOPS IN IRAQ UNTIL 2010. WILL THE PUBLIC IN EITHER COUNTRY PERMIT IT? - JUAN COLE (SALON, OCTOBER 12): Given what polls in Iraq are telling us about the unpopularity of U.S. troops in the country, given what public health experts are telling us about the inability of those troops to stem the growing tide of sectarian killings, and given the waning support for the whole Iraq enterprise among the American public, the rationale for keeping so many ground troops in Iraq has come increasingly into question.
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