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To: Murrey Walker who wrote (137661)	6/23/2004 2:32:31 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Certainly it was true in Vietnam -- one of the key lessons the military took from Vietnam was "don't go into a conflict with a cloud over the mission". Others, including the need for an exit strategy also apply to Iraq. But the cloud over the mission was the key problem in Iraq. The BS over WMD -- the BS over Iraq as a priority in the "war on terror" -- the global opposition to the US doctrine of unilateral war -- all of these things put a thick cloud over the mission. To go to war on a pretext as thin as the one put forward by Bush is to ask for trouble. And we got trouble -- trouble that killed young Americans in their prime. Iraq was not the result of military miscalculation -- it was the result of ignoring the military.