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To: mph who wrote (19993)	5/31/2006 1:19:45 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) of 541430

I would guess there was a popular perception at the time that we had "won the war" by occupying Iraq, and the occupation and reconstruction would go so well (thanks to the friendly, amenable, peaceful locals) that some troops would start to come home. The expectation did not include the insurgency, the inter-faith violence, thousands of US casualties, hundreds of billions of dollars more expenditure and still no confidence that we have created much of anything except a shifting pile of sand that could well collapse on itself in a bloody heap of civil war. A big visual of MISSION ACCOMPLISHED tends to push those thoughts aside. And no one in the administration exactly prepared the public for what lay ahead apart from a few vague phrases, carefully parsed into what was obviously meant as a very visual stage event. Overpromising is a chronic problem in politics, whether explicit or implicit.

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