Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

[James A. Donald]

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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?


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