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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Rascal who wrote (124644)2/12/2004 11:49:23 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Thanks for reminding us that it was hardly a foreordained result that Iraq would fall in three weeks with few American casualties.

However, Chalabi, soothing again, believes the ``Samson option'' could be forestalled by denying Saddam access to the western desert, by intense intelligence work in Jordan and by guaranteeing Jordan the oil it gets from Iraq

Isn't this what happened? Didn't most of what Chalabi said, come true?

Anthony Zinni, special envoy for the Middle East, dismisses the Iraqi National Congress as ``silk-suited, Rolex-wearing guys in London'' who could create a fiasco akin to the 1961 Bay of Pigs operation by U.S.-supported anti-Castro exiles--a ``Bay of Goats,'' Zinni warns.

There was no Bay of Pigs. Instead, the whole country fell in three weeks. So, your point is?
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