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To: D. Long who wrote (87555)	3/29/2003 1:44:46 AM
From: Sarmad Y. Hermiz	Respond to of 281500

reuters.com

To: D. Long who wrote (87555)	3/29/2003 2:48:35 AM
From: Doc Bones	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

The neocons have been asserting for years that Saddam just needed a little push: give Chalabi guns, money, and a little air support and Saddam would collapse. In the months after 9-11, they pushed for a second front in Iraq while attacking Afghanistan. Rumsfeld took Wolfowitz with him to the strategy meetings to push this view, which was understood to be Rumsfeld's also. When it was decided not to attack Iraq immediately they discovered that Wolfowitz was not a cabinet head so he was banished. The war so far has been a stinging rebuke to these happy warriors and the excessive optimists of the administration. Their overconfidence led them to ignore problems like "the cities," and grunts in the field have to deal with the reality. No doubt many in the press are getting too negative, and the military is slowed down, not bogged down, but Bush's insistence that everything is going great is not helping things. He appears to have "issues" with facing reality, and admitting error. Doc