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To: Win Smith who wrote (6480)	1/30/2004 2:25:11 PM
From: MrLucky	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20773

they weren't the ones who just had to have a war. I think accountability for the people who just had to have a war, and then had to botch the occupation because they couldn't be bothered with contingency planning, Are you forgetting how long it took before the invasion occurred. How many years? No one wanted a war. No one. Hussein continued to bet on that because the US kept going along with the toothless UN. He was looking like a great poker player. Then someone called his bluff. How effective the contingency planning was remains to be seen. So far progress has been far better than reported, yet much remains to be done. The time to decide on its success is when it is finished. It has been less than a year so far. History will judge this process by comparing it to the occupations of Germany and Japan. Of course, that doesn't stop those opposing the current administration to declare it a failure. Memories are short in America. We are still in Kosovo. Originally, that was to be about a one year long exercise. And like Iraq, the military from a number of countries are participating in the rehabilitation of that country.