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To: Sig who wrote (108131)	7/26/2003 1:40:09 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Yes, it does ring true. The combination of cunning and wishful thinking, the randomness that decided many events. Evidently, he was planning the same kind of war that had worked against the Iranians: WW1-style trenches, multiple lines of static defense. His majority-Shiite troops had stood for 8 years against the Iranians, and it was reasonable to think they would defend their own capital better than they had defended Kuwait in 1991. Reasonable, but wrong.