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Flame » in reply to re: Just out of curiosity...

Good answer.
TB — (archived)

And as far as going in with too little force, and too much concern for how the war would look on TV or in the newspapers, I'd have to agree. They also got it into their heads that if they knocked off Saddam in the first days of the war, everything else would fall into place. The silliness of that probably seems obvious to a lot of people here, but some of those same people also think that if we'd just gotten bin Laden in the first days of the war in Afghanistan, that we would have won the war on terror, and that even now the military should be focused on that.

I have identified other points where I believe it would have been possible to change the course of the war in Iraq to improve the odds of success. Fallujah should have been flattened after the burned corpses of those men had been hung on that bridge. Sadr should have been hunted down and taken out after his first uprising, never mind the second one. Maybe we should have shot some looters at the beginning, or attacked staging points in Syria or Iran where fighters were streaming across the border.

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