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To: RMF who wrote (794118)	7/8/2014 12:00:53 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578397

>> Instead of going in with enough troops to OCCUPY the country we just went in with enough to defeat their military. Chaos ensued.... There were a lot of moving parts. AQ had been effectively shut down in Afg; the transition to Iraq didn't take long. Perhaps that should have been anticipated, but it clearly was not. In spite of that they went on to have relatively meaningful elections in Jan 2005, which is what stirred up Zarqawi. Aside from Zarqawi, the insurgency that really caused the problem, didn't get rolling well until the bombing of the mosque in '06. By that time I think most war plans have turned to crap. So much stuff has happened that nothing anyone thought would happen was even relevant anymore; THAT is really what stretched it out. The people who were running the war weren't idiots. Just as McNamara and Johnson weren't idiots. But as others here have pointed out -- if you're not willing to inflict pain on the population generally, expecting a WWII outcome isn't reasonable. One day we'll probably learn that, but saving lives during wartime is an expensive (dollars and solider's lives) undertaking.