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Originally Posted by JP5";p="
It was NOT planned poorly, Munko. Wars and what happens afterwards are not planned in a sterile, laboratory enviroment. It's a dynamics....ever-chaning situation. It included human dynamics. There are always going to be adjustments that have to be made. Name me ONE war....just ONE....where Every single thing went as planned.
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It was "poorly planned". Just accept that.
For example: Tommy Franks, Gen Shinseki, Gen Shalikashvili and others stated that more troops will be needed. But the PENTAGON wanted a faster, agile force. No one on this PLANET gave Saddam's Republican guards (kinda funny, huh..spineless "republican guards' ) A CHANCE against our forces. Half of them defected before we got there. Now we all realize that more troops are needed.
For example: We needed linguists and Arabic speaking people in the CPA. What did we do? We had people in the CPA who were interested in putting a REPUBLICAN PARTY face on the reconstrcution instead of a joint American/Iraqi face on it.
For example: We did not establish an immediate link with the most powerful force in the region: ALI SISTANI..
For example" We thought it was such a great idea to shove down Iraqi throats a man who has not lived in Iraq for over 25 years and is also a wanted felon in Jordan. We figured we would install our Arb version of "NORIEGA". See what happened to Chalabi now?
You still think we planned this well? JP5...I beg you to open you eyes..This is not even about BUSH or KERRY. Open your eyes and you will see that we made too many costly mistakes. TOO MANY!!