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Originally Posted by aceventura3
Our military has a secondary role in policing Iraq. Policing Iraq is not and has never been our primary mission.
Our primary mission was to overthrow Sadaam, lay a foundation for democracy, take the fight to the Islamic extremists, and begin the process of creating stability in the region.
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We have lost more than 3,000 American men and women in Iraq, almost entirely after the fall of Saddam, because our policymakers in the White House and Defense Dept. believed we would be greeted as liberators.
What a sad commentary. What you in effect are acknowledging is that Bush/Rumsefeld did not understand or plan for the fact that an urban war creates an insurgency, not to mention the fact that, as many Middle East experts outside the Administration predicted, we would open the door to sectarian viiolence in a power struggle created by the post-Saddam vaccum......and we paid and are continuing to pay the price.