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To: Brumar89 who wrote (2064)	7/7/2007 8:44:15 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4152

<We didn't invade Iraq till 2003> Special forces were redeployed from Afghanistan long before the invasion of Iraq as we shifted our agenda to focus on Saddam. Our actions in Iraq did not begin with the formal blaring of trumpets and the mobilization of mass troop and equipment deployments -- these came much later. The key in Afghanistan as well as Iraq was the spearhead of special forces that laid the groundwork. By diverting those scarce and extremely valuable forces from the central front of the war on primary terror networks linked to bin Laden that we sought to disrupt, and by targeting them on an irrelevant nobody like Saddam, we ensured our inability to get anything like a victory and set ourselves up for the worst foreign policy blunder of modern times -- the invasion of a broken down regime in Iraq that had no role to play in the war on terror until we created one for them.