Frontline Tuesday - General: "Never a Mission" to Defeat Iraq's Insurgents

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Frontline Tuesday - General: "Never a Mission" to Defeat Iraq's Insurgents

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By Noah Shachtman June 18, 2007 | 2:54:45 PMCategories: Strategery

If these clips from former Gen. Jack Keane are any indication, tomorrow night's edition of Frontline -- on the Iraq war's "endgame" -- could be a blockbuster.

"We never even considered an insurgency as a reasonable option. We took down the regime, and we thought what we had to do then was occupy then country, stabilize it, and in the mater of a few months we could reduce the force," says Keane, the former Army Vice Chief of Staff and intellectual co-author of the current troop "surge."

And while the President may have been "us terms like 'win,' 'we're going to defeat the insurgents,' 'victory,'" Keane adds, "we never had that as a mission in Iraq." Take a look...

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Mon Jun-18-07 06:43 PM
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1. Ah. Then we should go.

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Tue Jun-19-07 07:41 AM
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2. kick n/t

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