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To: dougd

There certainly was an army left. Suggest you make a list of all the players in Iraq who would be best prepared to look after the country.


81 posted on 10/18/2007 7:08:00 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Go Hawks !)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
No, there was no Army left. It is not disputed that they had "melted away" by the end of the initial invasion. Bremmer did make it official after the fact with his Disbandment order - recently made something of a controversy with all the "who did what" of early last month - but his only other option was to somehow reconstitute it - and the question then is how anyone could have done that?? Did anyone have some list? Should we have searched house to house for uniforms?

Nor is it obvious that reconstituting it would have been such a great idea knowing how corrupt it was, filled with Baathists, extremely resented by the Shiites, etc. etc.

84 posted on 10/18/2007 7:56:35 PM PDT by dougd
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