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To: Rascal who wrote (106121)	7/17/2003 9:33:44 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

But it said the entire civilian effort needed to be "immediately turbo-charged" with more money, personnel and resources... Rick Barton of CSIS described the CPA as "living in a cocoon inside a bubble". He noted that many US troops were static, tied up guarding US personnel and compounds. This is so heartbreaking. We have been crying about the incredible penny wise pound foolish ways of this administration in Iraq and Afghanistan for many months now. When are they going to wake up. Are they waiting for the polls to tell them that spending an extra $10 billion dollars and adding 100,000 or so more people a couple of months ago could have saved Iraq? I suspect it's the conservative ideologue mentality at work here. These people are by nature incapable of flexibility. If it doesn't fit the ideology and the original plan, it takes forever to change, particularly if the plan was critisized by the ideological adversaries. They need to be hit by a two by four to wake up. The hit will come soon enough. It's when the headlines will read "Bush approval rating hits a new low". Kyros