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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (55243)6/2/2009 4:27:33 PM
From: one_less  Respond to of 149317
 
"The plan misfired in that they had not planned for Al Qaeda to follow them into Iraq and take them on.

And that is when the US found themselves involved deeply in a situation that they had not planned for."


They practically sent Al-Qaeda a gold lettered invitation. The bigger surprise and the one they were not so prepared for at the time was the multi-sourced and reoccurring insurgencies.