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To: Neocon who wrote (154723)	12/23/2004 1:04:56 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

and i agree with that point but also can see the iranians at some point prefering moderate shiaa state to al quaeda, taliban, wahabis, the next saddam etc. Think we can agree to agree. mike

To: Neocon who wrote (154723)	12/25/2004 7:07:39 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

US Army historian criticizes Iraq strategy: report Sat Dec 25, 1:26 PM ET U.S. National - AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US Army historian has reportedly concluded that the military has invaded Iraq (news - web sites) without a formal plan for occupying and stabilizing the country and this high-level failure continues to undercut Army efforts there. The Washington Post quotes Major Isaiah Wilson, the official historian of the campaign, as writing in one of his papers that "there was no Phase IV plan" for occupying Iraq after the combat phase. Wilson's essay has been delivered at several academic conferences but not formally published, The Post reported, adding that it was able to obtain a copy of the lecture. According to the historian, while a variety of government offices had considered the possible situations that would follow a US victory, no one produced an actual document laying out a strategy to consolidate the victory after major combat operations ended. Assessing the chaos that followed the defeat of the Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) regime, the study says, "The United States, its Army and its coalition of the willing have been playing catch-up ever since," the paper reported. "While there may have been 'plans' at the national level, and even within various agencies within the war zone, none of these 'plans' operationalized the problem beyond regime collapse," the report quotes Wilson as saying. "There was no adequate operational plan for stability operations and support operations." As a result of the failure to produce a plan, Wilson asserts, the US military lost the dominant position in Iraq in the summer of 2003 and has been scrambling to recover ever since, according to The Post. "In the two to three months of ambiguous transition, US forces slowly lost the momentum and the initiative... gained over an off-balanced enemy," the paper quoted the historian as saying. news.yahoo.com