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Politics : Let's Talk About the War
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To: schrodingers_cat who wrote (168)3/29/2003 11:26:30 AM
From: Gordon A. Langston  Read Replies (1) of 486
 
You have no concept of preparing the battlefield. The fact that we moved 10's of thousands of troops hundreds of miles WHILE AT THE SAME TIME degrading the enemy's forces is just a variation of Desert Storm. It was a much easier chore to kick Iraq out of Kuwait and that took nearly 40 days of battlefield preparation until Iraqi forces were degraded the necessary 50% and some were surrendering to lampposts.

The "insufficient forces" not on the battlefield were the 4th ID which was originally slated to enter via Turkey. They're in Kuwait now and deploying,

Try and find out where you first got this idea that it would be over in days and be a cakewalk. If you understand schrodingers cat it shouldn't be hard.
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