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To: greenspirit who wrote (173108)	10/22/2005 9:27:29 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 281500

I gave you more than you need to understand all the statements that I have made. Read up on Wolfowitz, Shinseki, White etc. Read up on why the lines of supply were falling behind the troops. Read up on your own otherwise you won't learn anything. "...I have a chapter that talks about intervention in Iraq in response to Iraqi moves and activities, and the whole thing is over in two weeks, and we use fewer than 50,000 troops to do it.... And in this memorandum, I outlined the meeting, and I pointed out that Gen. Franks had listened to me after he talked for about 15 minutes. He said, "What do you think?" And in 10 minutes, I very rapidly ran down the concept of operation, which was a smaller force than the enemy expects; standing start; no warning; key is to get the bridges; sustain rapid movement; avoid contact with the enemy as much as possible, [in] particular the Army, which I didn't think wanted to fight; get to Baghdad very quickly to capture as many of the government as you possibly could. And I estimated that if we did this correctly, we could get there in four or five days, without too much trouble at all, especially if you used armored forces...."