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To: LindyBill who wrote (41594)4/30/2004 3:16:36 PM
From: Tom Clarke  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793960
 
I'm getting angrier the more I think about this. Haven't we learned anything? To let State and the CIA call the shots is incomprehensible.

None of this happened, however, because State and CIA fought against Rumsfeld's plans every step of the way. Instead of bringing a liberating Shia and Sunni force of 10,000 to Iraq, the Pentagon was only allowed to fly in a few hundred INC men. General Garner was unceremoniously dumped after only three weeks on the job, and permission for our military to pursue infiltrators across the border into Syria was denied.

Who made this decision? Where does the buck stop?



To: LindyBill who wrote (41594)4/30/2004 8:13:03 PM
From: Sully-  Respond to of 793960
 
You would have thought that with the recent similar
success in Afghanistan that this would have been seriously
considered. And the fact that we had a large contingent of
troops blocked from the north by Turkey, there was even
more reason to give it a go.

As Finn said..... "Oh, what could have been"...


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