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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (87100)	3/27/2003 7:28:23 PM
From: Steeny	Read Replies (3) of 281500

We are now in this war & American credibility demands that we win. I'm not buying this "battered wife" syndrome of the Iraqis. Nadine, I do feel duped. It is not the Baath resistance that troubles me. It is the reaction of ordinary Iraqis in the south. Rumsfeld suffered from Afghan afterglow. He was brilliant in Afghanistan-combining local forces & special ops. Why did he reject the locals in Iraq while at the same time sending in lighter forces than the military establishment wanted? He is a patriot & I believe he bought his own rhetoric. He was not trying to dupe anyone. BUT, that does not make him free from culpability. When Turkey rejected our troops, we started the war without the 4th cavalry. The "fighting 4th" is our most advanced armored unit. Why did he not wait to reposition them in the conflict?

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