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To: Elroy who wrote (258965)	11/8/2005 11:56:03 AM
From: Alighieri	Respond to of 1573433

I think you are listing all the objectors to the entire Iraq campaign. I'm not talking about them. No, I am not. I am talking about people who said that it would take a lot more power and money as well as people who urged that the truth be told about the motives...people like Shalikashvili, who told us that it would take an army three times bigger...he was fired. Zinni who told us that it would take a lot longer than the slam bang the administration was selling...same fate. Scowcroft, similar messages, he also urged a debate and truth telling...he was ignored. Wilson told us that one of the WMDs stories bush was telling was untrue. We know what happened to him. You seem to dismiss too much, and oversimplify too much. Just as you do the training of an army. I recall your remarks about that one...you don't seem to have much of an appreciation for how complex a military institution is. Just estabilishing a hierarchy of command you can trust, or supplying the miriads of items that an army consumes everyday from central commands, knowing that when you give an order it is golden, coordinating a mission in a factionalized tribal nation with local interests and many of its units have been infiltrated by insurgents....the complexity in a homogeneous orderly society is high, in Iraq it's nearly impossible. Al