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To: Gary H who wrote (17744)	3/30/2003 1:50:35 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81137

Gary >Rumsfeld repeatedly rejected advice from Pentagon planners Yes, the top boys were too greedy and too full of themselves. In fact, some months ago Rumsfeld went around saying that the reason for the Iraq war was that it was "do-able". Here's quite a good piece on the subject: philly.com >>>Knowledgeable defense and administration officials say Rumsfeld and his civilian aides at first wanted to commit no more than 60,000 American troops to the war on the assumption that the Iraqis would capitulate in two days. Intelligence officials say Rumsfeld, his deputy Paul Wolfowitz and other Pentagon civilians ignored much of the advice of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency in favor of reports from the Iraqi opposition and from Israeli sources that predicted an immediate uprising against Saddam once the Americans attacked.<<< Ther's no question that Bush, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz & Co have comprehensively screwed up --- but so what --- they still can't lose. Despite the protracted war and the costs in coalition and Iraqi lives, Dubya will get his victory and will come out a hero --- and he will get his oil wells --- but, most important, the chickenhawks will achieve their ambition of Israel being the MidEast superpower. What a world we live in!