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To: Orcastraiter who wrote (159348)	3/20/2005 6:16:47 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 281500

The defined mission was to remove Saddam, and to get the WMD. Everything else we're doing there is mission creep. Remove Saddam and leave whoever was left to fight for succession? Is that what you thought the mission was? Hardly. In fact, it was Powell who warned repeatedly of Iraq, "You break it, you own it." In short, setting up the successor government - the successor IRAQI government, since we weren't trying to colonize Iraq - was always part of the mission. Check? I don't think so. When overwhelming force is used casualties go down over time...not up. We're undermanned. It's directly responsible for the increase in casualties. Our casualties have not been going up on a per diem basis and are currently going down. And what, btw, is your military expertise? The exit strategy was never clearly defined. That was a complaint of many right out of the blocks By whom? The original hope was to decapitate the regime, run the country with the CPA and lower level functionaries until the new democracy could be set up, at which point we would begin to draw down our troops. Clearly the collapse of the old regime and the insurgency interfered with that plan, but it's still the plan. Like I said, there is nothing about the Powell doctrine that says it has to get done in six weeks or else. The exit strategy is simple: the Iraqi democracy defends itself and US troops go home.

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