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To: greenspirit who wrote (257137)	7/8/2008 7:29:58 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 794032

Mike, [one more post], the great thing about cyberspace is the information sits there, not rusting or evaporating. You can do a search in SI back before the invasion of Iraq and see my posts about how it would be a 110 minute war, one orbit of a Globalstar satellite. [Now I can't recall if it was 100 minutes or 110 minutes. It wasn't literally going to be a couple of hours because as you know, it would take a lot longer than that to drive to Baghdad. The point was it was going to be really quick because the "4th biggest army would fold like a tent". As it did, predictably. I even gave the probable casualty figures [for USA] and the post-conquest outcome = insurgency of a difficult nature. I think I expected about 3000 or maybe it was 4000 USA dead. It wasn't hindsight because the posts were BEFORE the war. I also explained that there weren't going to be any WMDs. Search "Bigfoot". <It's very, very, very, very, very easy to look back now after Saddam and his 4th largest army in the world is destroyed and say it was all soooo easy, isn't it? > I even provided alternative actions to sort the situation out - for Saddam to take to protect himself. But he unsurprisingly didn't take my advice and neither did the USA. They deserved each other and got each other. Fortunately, no NZ troops got involved in the process, though they did take part in helping to fix the mess up subsequently [which you seem not to know]. The Joint Chiefs of Staff may avail themselves of my services the next time they are about to make a big mistake. I'll give a special cheap price. Noblesse oblige, Mqurice

To: greenspirit who wrote (257137)	12/3/2008 1:28:55 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 794032

Hi Michael. He could have hired me for a LOT less money and got a lot better result: "The biggest regret of all the presidency has to have been the intelligence failure in Iraq. A lot of people put their reputations on the line and said the weapons of mass destruction is a reason to remove Saddam Hussein. It wasn't just people in my administration; a lot of members in Congress, prior to my arrival in Washington D.C., during the debate on Iraq, a lot of leaders of nations around the world were all looking at the same intelligence. And, you know, that's not a do-over, but I wish the intelligence had been different, I guess." -- George W. Bush For decades, "intelligence" has been the missing ingredient in so much that is called Intelligence. Which is not to say that doing nothing at all was the best option. It wasn't. The NewUN was the best option and at the time, the USA hadn't exhausted their credit lines and had a few more $trillion to come and go on. The till is depleted now, debts are stacked high, wall to wall, everyone is tired, and the USA has lost a lot of Market Leader position in the geopolitical market. At the time, I thought it was a reasonable choice to conquer Saddam's Iraq for those who liked a dog eat dog way of doing things. Those were the rules in Iraq so it was reasonable that like-minded people would join in. Saddam won't be funding any more terrorist operations by Palestinians and Uday is happily exterminated. Serve them right! Mqurice