-- R.A. Hettinga
I think if we had decapitated Iraq, went after our military objectives, like securing what was a threat to us, including Iraq's senior military and political leadership and their weapons stockpiles, and left political order to emerge there on its own, like we did in Afghanistan, we could have done it with Rumsfeld's original 50,000 troop estimate.
On 23 Nov 2004 at 7:47, John Kelsey wrote:
It seems like there would have to have been someone to take over in a fairly clean way, or we'd have wound up setting off a civil war.
And the problem with a civil war in Iraq is? --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG x5H8AGNAFwoPy8fyvCAHj64dIL55pbnwnQFgENLL 4PH/mFu1yrhhrF9zduNJT5lUkHHJFlT99/IhXMPeT