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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (159102)	3/15/2005 8:23:50 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) of 281500

<none of whom, as I recall, called it a bad move before Bremer did it> What people saw -- and saw very clearly from day one -- was anarchy in Iraq after the US invasion. It was this environment of total anarchy that set the stage for the miserable cycle of death that has been the hallmark of the US "liberation" of Iraq. The rampaging, the crime, the violence, the looting all took place as US soldiers stood there and watched. Within days the writing was on the wall - the US is incapable of controlling the situation in Iraq. There were three possible routes to avoid this catastrophe: 1) Have enough meaningful numeric support from a global coalition to establish control, or; 2) Invade with an American force three times as large and configured towards policing Iraq, or; 3) Enlist the Iraqi army and police immediately, and pay them immediately. The US did none of the above and turned an illegal invasion into a squalid scene of daily killings and lawlessness, stemmed only by the local Muslim leaders at the very local level and establishing the foundations for the kind of Islamic State they see as their future.

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