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2003-03-29 Iraq

Report: Rumseld Ignored Pentagon Advice on Iraq

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Posted by ISHMAIL 2003-03-29 11:38 pm|| || Front Page|| [13 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It might ring true. But it's also Sy Hersh, who I usually take with a pound of salt.

Posted by tu3031 2003-03-30 00:21:33|| 2003-03-30 00:21:33|| Front Page Top

#2 This is chickenshit. "The former (unnamed) senior Pentagon planner" This is story is a classic. If the war was over in a week, it would be an unfair fight. If it takes some time, it's a quagmire.

Hersh if of course saying that we're doomed. I guess he thinks that Franks will order an infantry assualt with poorly equipped, lightly protected soldiers and send them headlong into the strongest part of Baghdad's defenses.

C'mon. So WHAT if it takes months to get the right forces in place, presuming as Hersh does, that we don't have them? We use the time to consolidate the south and suffocate the Republican Guard around Baghdad. We have supply problems? What about Saddam? He has NO outside power to resupply him.

If it takes a half-million to do the job, we'll get the half-million. There is NO way, ZERO that we are going to back off and give the Arabs a victory that will lead to the destruction of the United States. No chance.

But in a very important way, this story is useful. Let Saddam think we've been rope-a-doped. Let him think our guys are as ragtag and demoralized as his. Saddam is the master of miscalculation.

C'mon out and play.

Posted by R. McLeod 2003-03-30 05:41:49|| 2003-03-30 05:41:49|| Front Page Top

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