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To: Lane3 who wrote (27972)	9/2/2006 7:56:08 PM
From: GST	Respond to of 541490

The use of the word "liberate" threw us way off track in the invasion. The logic was that liberators don't need a large force, and securing the country should be qucik and easy. After all, liberators are warmly welcomed and receive lots of local support. People who are being liberated jump in and help get things going without much need for anything more than the killing of the nasty leaders from which the people are being liberated. By thinking this way, all the plans that called for an invasion that did not use this rosy ideology of "liberating" Iraq were of course thrown in the garbage. The plans for securing Iraq were well developed, but seeing as they were in the garbage instead of being used as a guide for the invasion the plans did us no good. If we had not believed our own hubris about us being "liberators" and instead saw ourselves as invaders and foreign occupiers who would encounter a long and drawn out hostile environment and chaos then we would have had a chance to at least avoid a crushing defeat by using the plans that had been developed from this point of view.