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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 11:38 AM
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Officials now acknowledge that Iraq’s insurgency has grown more complex, with a greater array...
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=46374

Multiple enemies complicate Iraq


As insurgents in Iraq were first gaining ground in spring 2003, former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld dismissed them as a ragtag collection of die-hard Saddam Hussein loyalists, foreign fighters, common criminals and other “dead-enders.”

Two years later, even as the fighting in Iraq worsened, Vice President Dick Cheney declared the insurgency to be in “its last throes.”

Now, after more than four years of grinding combat, events in Iraq have forced the Bush administration and military officials to rethink many of their long-standing assumptions about the nature of the conflict.

Officials now acknowledge that Iraq’s insurgency has grown more complex, with a greater array of enemies than at any time in the past.

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MichiganVote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 11:45 AM
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1. Its a civil war stupid
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LynnTheDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-03-07 11:54 AM
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2. "rethink many of their long-standing assumptions"
Like "Iraq did 911!"

Or "We'll be greeted as liberators!"

Perhaps "Iraq's oil will pay for reconstruction and in a hurry. It really won't cost US taxpayers anything."

Maybe "The American people agree with me on Iraq."

Then there's "We know where they are." and "there is no doubt".

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