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To: Sig who wrote (132587)	5/11/2004 10:02:23 AM
From: Sam	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Well, now that Rumsfeld has led the US Military on one of the most brilliant campaigns in history. Frankly, Sig, that's ridiculous. First, they were facing an army that had many people in it who didn't want to fight. Second, those who did want to fight were preparing to fight a completely different war than the one that the US fought. And no one in the WH recognized it, least of all Bush and Rumsfeld. Plenty of people (including the much reviled Carl on this thread, to name just one) believed that the real war hadn't even begun when Bush stood on that carrier in his spiffy uniform with his absurd banner flying overhead. This war wasn't brilliant. It was stupid, it was nuts to begin with, based on the silly fantasy that we could do in Iraq in 2003 what we did in Iran in 1954. And what we sometimes call the Aftermath has been absurdly mismanaged in almost every way.