Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

R.A. Hettinga rah at shipwright.com
Mon Nov 22 11:35:06 PST 2004


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At 10:38 AM -0500 11/22/04, John Kelsey wrote:
>we need people to do the occupying,

I'm pretty heretical about this. 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.

No. Seriously. :-).

Cheers,
RAH
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