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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (148501)	11/23/2005 10:21:20 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (3) of 793597

We may be talking about different things. Before the war, there were very knowledgeable people warning about what we were facing in terms of postwar problems: the tribalism, the lack of a national unity, the distrust of us as occupiers, the need to prepare ourselves for a costly and longterm commitment (Friedman wrote about this quite a bit)especially if we went it alone. To read all this and then see the total lack of preparation for these predicted results was disappointing to say the least. We obviously misread a lot about Saddam and his posturing and the actual situation in the country before the war. The dismal state of the country after we occupied seemed to catch people totally unaware-- Saddam had already let much of the infrastructure deteriorate to fund his military- and there we were to foot not just our own bill, but his. I believe there were many who did foresee much of this and did warn us. It was the reading of those books and articles that convinced me we should not go in when and as we did. But it was our own admin telling us about the greetings with flowers and convinced us it was necessary and welcome. We hoped for the best. I still hope for the best.

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