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7-24-2007 5:46 PM301 views
ratilfar says:
Reader Beware: This is a Michael Gordon piece, but at least we know he is a good stenographer for the White House and the Pentagon, so my guess this is as accurate as he can be. The only reason COBRA II was such a good book is because Gen. Trainor kept him honest.
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7-24-2007 6:04 PM
ratilfar
From the article:

“If eventually the Iraqi government and the various sects and groups do
not come to some sort of agreement on how to share power, on how to
divide resources and on how to reconcile and stop the violence, then
the assumption on which the surge strategy was based is invalid, and we
would have to re-look the strategy,” Colonel Mansoor added.
7-25-2007 5:01 PM
cptenaud
Only one problem with this. General Petraus had already said a month ago. That this operation will probably take a century to complete. Maybe he doesn't know how long a century is.

I just thought up a good bumper sticker.

WILL PETRAUS
BETRAY US?
7-25-2007 5:35 PM
ratilfar
Petraeus is a General and Generals like their flag offices and spit shines which means they have to follow orders, mind you Patreus was doing a rather decent job with the 101st, but he was in Mosul and the Kurds certainly did not want to pick a fight with them.

Iraq is like Yugoslavia, a artificial construct held together by fear inducing will of a tyrant(s). Once he was gone, it went to Hell in a hand basket. Even things calm down in the late summer and fall, who is to say that the surge can be maintained, the numbers don't add up (logistically or politically), and while al-Qaeda in Iraq might be defeated (never a bad thing), that will simply clear the way for the Iraqi ultra-nationalist ...
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