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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (13962)10/30/2006 1:00:46 AM
From: RMF  Read Replies (2) of 71588
 
Peter....if they had thought it important they would have put off the invasion for a while.

Apparently they didn't.

I think Rumsfeld and Cheney and the other Neo-cons thought that they knew more than everybody else and they wouldn't have to pay any attention to "State Department Types" that had studied the region for years.

My biggest concern when the War started was that Saddam would just pull all his most loyal troops back into the major cities and fight a guerilla war. He didn't do that, but from what I've seen of the incompetence of Rumsfeld, I don't think HE even bothered to think about it.

Going to War is a BIG DEAL, especially when you do so in a region as volatile and strategically important as the Middle East. From what I've heard and read and seen, the Bush Administration treated the Iraq invasion as just a simple move on the geo-political chessboard without much if any consideration of the intricate complexities involved.

That seemed apparent in Bush's little show on that aircraft carrier in which they put up that famous banner. I would BET you that Bush spent more time practicing for that little flight than he did thinking about the possible outcomes BEFORE he decided to go to war.
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