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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (387274)5/29/2008 8:39:04 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 1574261
 
Ted, > And one reason why you thought that is because that's the way the WH sold it to the American public. ... People though it would be like the Gulf War.

And Afghanistan.

But that's wasn't just because of the way the White House sold it to the public. It seemed reasonable at the time. Afghanistan was supposed to be a quagmire; the Taliban was bragging that their morale was high just a week before Kabul fell. Desert Shield was supposed to be a quagmire, but when it turned into Desert Storm, the success surprised just about everyone.

I guess the quagmire gods finally found a home in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

By the way, the WMD angle never was compelling to me despite what the Bush administration said. Instead, I believed in democratizing Iraq. Nothing wrong with that belief, except that it cost a lot more than I ever imagined. How come Afghanistan was a cakewalk by comparison?

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