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To: neolib who wrote (263502)	5/6/2008 4:36:31 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Nadine, the problems with Iraq was that Rummy thought it was not tough. He thought it was going to be a cakewalk, and that Iraqi oil money would pay for it to boot. Cheney was just as i neolib the paradigm you are following is: 1. Critics said the Iraq war would be tough; Saddam would go down fight. Rummy thought it would be quck. 2. Saddam fell in two weeks. However, Iraq turned out to be far more broken a country than anybody had predicted, including the CIA or the critics of the war. Furthermore, Al Qaeda declared Iraq to be the central front in global jihad, which Rummy had discussed but not seriously planned for. 3. Therefore, the critics were right and Rummy was wrong. It just is not honest. Point 3) is a non-sequitur. Stick to saying that the whole thing is Bush's responsibility since he ordered it and he's President. You're in the right that far. Don't push beyond what the facts allow. Don't assume we're all amnesiacs. Doug Feith's book just came out, and unlike many others, the reviews say it is scrupulously documented. The facts may surprise you.