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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: JohnM who wrote (95076)4/20/2003 5:43:29 AM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
I read this article, and said to myself, "How can Johnny Apple write tripe like this? Did he follow the war at all?" And then I thought, "No, John is going to read this and post it as 'revealed wisdom,' so I had better post it here ahead of him."

A New Way of Warfare Leaves Behind an Abundance of Loose Ends
By R. W. APPLE Jr.

WASHINGTON, April 19, Nobody got it quite right.

The war in Iraq, now in its final military stages after only a month of fighting, was neither as painful as its opponents predicted nor as painless as its proponents suggested. Saddam Hussein was driven from power, at a quite substantial cost in American, British and especially Iraqi lives and with still unknowable consequences for world and regional political stability.
nytimes.com
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