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Before the invasion, many of us said that an attack against Iraq would be a mistake.
We predicted that the Iraqis would boobytrap the cities, let the army into the center, and then fight a guerilla war from the suburbs and beyond.
Is that starting to happen now?
I keep hearing this constant drone beneath the surface, on the wings, that the military is planning some big push in Iraq. I'm sure others have been keeping up with this more than I have. With all that's going on, right now, it sort of lurks on the side.
Today I hear there's to be a big "crackdown on insurgents."
Deep down we know what this really means. I really feel for the civilians.
I notice however, that Bush didn't want to take the chance at making this "push" before the elections. They've been bringing it up for days now, but they have yet to do it.
Obviously even they can't find out ("officially") what happened to all those explosives. Otherwise, we wouldn't be getting every excuse that comes along and this "investigation" business.
Seems kind of silly right now to concentrate your forces in the center, when you don't know what kinds of explosives may be lurking about.
They didn't crack the insurgency in its infancy. Why? Because they didn't have enough troops there. Smashing a few neighborhoods now is not going to quell the rebellion. It just makes it worse. And on it goes.
So much for spreading freedom and democracy.
We should be ashamed of ourselves after we sat here and watched the Soviet Union bankrupt itself over Afghanistan.
Are we not now doing the exact same thing in Iraq. Yesterday Peggy Noonan was whining about "people have to understand", "this is not a few years kind of war", "this will take at least 40 years".
It only took ten years to bankrupt the soviets.
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