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Well said.
This is why Rangers, the 82nd, or the Marines are not the final answer to this puzzle, unless we are willing to kill everyone in Iraq.
I have said before, and will say again, this war should have been fought as a UW op from Day One, with SF in the lead, using the Kurds and the Shias to destroy Sadaam and his forces.
The initial defeat of Sadaam might have taken a little longer, but we would not be having these problems now.
This was where Rumsfeld went wrong. He listened to the conventional commanders, assumed away problems and end state, and tried to do it on the cheap with an under-resourced and inadequate conventional war plan.
Thanks for the post. Clearly, Major Edmonds is switched on and "gets it". I wish more did.
TR
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