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To: Max Combined

the insurgency took U.S. military leaders by surprise because they believed the assurances of Iraqi opposition groups and defectors that American forces would be welcomed.

This is naive beyond belief.

Did the general think that 100% of the people would welcome us? How about 90%? That would leave a couple of million candidate insurgents. This guy has to be a Clinton appointee. The military plans for the unexpected and I simply do not believe that post invasion attacks on the American "occupiers" could have possibly been a surprise to the military leadership when it wasn't a surprise to me.

11 posted on 07/18/2004 7:51:46 AM PDT by InterceptPoint

To: InterceptPoint

This is naive

No kidding

20 posted on 07/18/2004 12:02:36 PM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)

To: InterceptPoint; SunkenCiv

Who even heard the word "insurgency", let alone expected one, before the press began using and overusing that LAME word a couple of months ago?

24 posted on 07/18/2004 12:28:36 PM PDT by ValerieUSA

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