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Originally Posted by irishgrl
well, Jason today is a new day and Ive re-read the original story and once again, you committed a red herring:
so.........Im thinking it was probably Rummy that ORIGINALLY figured this was going to be easier than it was. Which is why he only sent the number of troops he did initially.
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Again, two events occured, the initial invasion, which most experts agreed would be relatively easy and it was -- in fact, we were as predicted mostly greeted by the population as liberators as demonstrated in that footage. No one ever said the initial invasion was going to be hard, long, etc.
Then, the plan for rebuilding Iraq, which has been a fiasco. But, even in that, my recollection is Bush has always cautioned America that it would take a long time. In fact, he is still saying that
