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To: epicure who wrote (27529)	8/30/2006 8:38:56 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 542009

I don't know why I would have to make any concrete references to Iraq war planning if I accept your specific asserting facts. Namely that the planning was limited to a few PowerPoint slides. If that was true (and I am not debating that at this time) it would still be a lot more planning than some other wars or campaigns have had. Some wars have had zero planning. The king or chief screams attack and the attack happens... So it wouldn't even be "the least planning of any war in history". If beyond insufficient planning you mean foolish planning than the statement was clearly false. Foolish ideas of starting wars, including foolish wars started with less developed plans than "a few PowerPoint slides", have lead to the destruction of armies and even the governments that ordered the attack. If your talking all of history there are just to many examples to draw from. Limit it to American history, or perhaps to world wide history after 1975 and you could begin to have an argument. But through all of history at any time, please...