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"As for what you say about the high hopes for the U.S. and Iraq, there still and most obviously has not been enough study on the Iraqi infrastructure that existed before the war to bring the country back to a working entity."
I, as well as most people here I would imagine, receive their information from various published sources. I've read that, before the war, the state dept. had informed the administration of the repercussions of starting and ending a war. That includes studying and preparing for various scenarios including the protection of infrastructure, the level of destruction, degree of mayhem/anarchy, etc.
The administration apparently decided to discount or minimize this part of the equation and (obviously) concentrated only on actual battle plans. Invading a country is seldom without complications. To not have addressed these issues before beginning battle is short-sighted ..... to say the least. Case in point - how much of Iraq has electricity, potable water and sanitation as of this date? How many happy Iraqi civilians are there? Have we won their hearts and minds in our quest to "free" them?
JMHO,
Sherwood Lee
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