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To: GST who wrote (27496)	8/30/2006 7:40:12 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) of 541957

I was speaking very specifically about the occupation planning. Since I am not a military historian myself, I found the take on the situation by military historians to be relevant. Apparently the lack of planning for the occupation was truly, and stunningly, incomplete and inept. I don't know what other posters may be saying, but I was impressed with how much the military did with the puny resources allotted to them (they wanted a far bigger force than they got). After reading Fiasco I think we might have been able to accomplish something in Iraq, however stupid the pretext for invasion, if the military had had the extra manpower they wanted to secure the North, and to secure Baghdad. But they didn't have those men, and we lost the window of opportunity- and it's probably hopeless to expect much now.

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