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To: GST who wrote (159104)	3/15/2005 1:12:35 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Nothing like 20/20 hindsight, is there? Except it isn't even accurate as hindsight. Now we know, as more prisoners are captured, how many plans were laid for the guerilla war in the loooong warning Saddam had of the invasion, how many arms were stashed, how many billions of dollars in cash and gold, both in Iraq and Syria. All of which says that there would have been a guerilla war of some sort no matter WHAT the US did, it was NOT the pure product of US negligence, as it now suits you to claim. If they had anticipated it better, they would have been better prepared, but then, the same is true for the Battle of the Bulge. In real wars, things go unanticipated and historians (real ones, not partisan mud-throwers) sort it out later. If Saddam's army had been kept standing, the guerrillas would have been drawing US salaries as they planted IEDs. I can just IMAGINE what you would have had to say about that scenario.