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Originally Posted by Rekna
good god ace. When Bush got up there and declared mission accomplished he declared that major combat operations in Iraq were over. He said exactly what mission he was talking about. Stop trying to rewrite history.
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When Silent Jay posted this, my response was "Yes".
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Originally Posted by silent_jay View Post
So what phase was over 3 weeks into the campaign then? Was it the we just fucked up your country, now we're clueless about what else to do phase?
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I agree now and I agreed then. I had mixed feelings about the occupation. I finally agreed with the sentiment of Powel when he said "you broke it, you fix it". I think people in the Bush administration had mixed views on the occupation as well. It is clear there was no real and effective plan for the occupation. They developed a plan, and it was working for awhile and things took a turn for the worse. Eventually, the administration made the needed changes and developed a plan that actually did work.
I don't know what you folks want from me. It is clear in my mind that there was the initial phase of the war, the invasion and then a second phase which I would broadly describe as the occupation. The first phase was well planned and a success. The occupation was not initially well planed.