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To: tekboy who wrote (30600)5/24/2002 4:24:45 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (5) of 281500
 
Military Bids to Postpone Iraq Invasion
Joint Chiefs See Progress In Swaying Bush, Pentagon

The uniformed leaders of the U.S. military believe they have persuaded the Pentagon's civilian leadership to put off an invasion of Iraq until next year at the earliest and perhaps not to do it at all, according to senior Pentagon officials.

Does something strike you as improper about this line of argument? For the military to argue that that the campaign requires more troops or a lengthy buildup, that's legitimate. But this sounds quite close to a policy argument -- we don't want to go into Iraq, period. Surely that is the business of the civil administration, not the Joint Chiefs? Who is making policy here? It almost sounds as if State and the Pentagon are in one faction, and the Bush administration in another.
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