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Old 04-16-2004, 01:18 PM   #84 (permalink)
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Originally posted by shakran
Um. It wasn't successful. Successful invasions do not have major battles going on every day for a year after "major hostilities have ended." Successful invasions do not wind up with more people killed after the war is supposedly over than were killed during the war.

Anyone who calls this little adventure we're having in Iraq anything close to successful is either misinformed or deluding themselves.

Umm, Yeah they do.

There were Japanese and German guerilla fighters after WW2 even though we won (I am guessing you won't dispute that). The Germans successfully invaded France and there was still a resistance.
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