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To: michael97123 who wrote (42490)	5/6/2004 1:12:14 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793750

The real story here is that Rummy and Cheney were not neocons and apparently had little interest in nation building. For them the war was more about realpolitic, oil and business opportunities with a little wmd thrown in. So they won the war on the cheap but assumed that on the cheap would work for pacification too. Mike, you're leaping to all kinds of false conclusions. It would be more accurate to say that Rummy's plan for the war won out, pretty much (except for the large monkey wrench thrown by the Turks), but the plan for the peace (there was one) foundered on in-fighting with State. In any case, I don't think anybody thought the war would be over so fast, or order dissolve so completely. Now maybe the guys saying we needed more armor to declare martial law with were right, but they don't answer the political arguments - even with what we had, we didn't want to come in hard and heavy because we wanted to liberate, not occupy.