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To: Sam who wrote (217118)	2/9/2007 2:32:43 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) of 281500

There are any number of articles that say that even the Baathists, those pushed to join the party to get a job for example, were looking forward to getting Saddam out of office. There was a lull of about 6 months after Saddam was toppled where the country was basically waiting to see what the Americans were going to do. That 6 months ended up with the million man army being disbanded with their guns but without any money for its future. It ended up with de-Baathification even though they were who ran the country and did things like keep the electrical grid operating. It ended up with Rumsfeld snickering at the looting. I do not think that, even with all of the lies that Bush/Cheney et al told, Iraq was inevitably a chaotic mess. It they had listened to the professional military and sent in 500,000 troops (no contractors, just military) to begin with and IMMEDIATELY had elections, Iraq would not be in this chaotic state of affairs. I do not believe that Saddam did what was impossible for the US to do. That makes no sense. There would have been pockets of insurgency but the electricity would have flowed, the oil would have flowed and now most of the yelling would be political.

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