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Cobra II : The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq

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Cobra 2: At last, the unvarnished truth about the American invasion and occupation of Iraq.


• When and how was the war strategy formed? What were the disputes among the generals and the differences between the field commanders and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld?

• How did Rumsfeld seek to monopolize war planning, and what was his relationship to the rest of the Bush administration?

• What was the basic strategic assumption of the war plan, and how was it flawed?

• How wide off the mark was the CIA in its assessments?

• What was the military strategy of the Iraqis, and how was it misread?

• What role did General Tommy Franks really play in the prosecution of the war?

• What were the principal battles, and what has so far not been revealed about them?

• How much friction was there between the Americans and the British?

• Which Arab nations that publicly criticized the war privately supported it?

• What opportunity to stabilize Iraq after the fall of Saddam presented itself, and why was it not seized?

• What do the Balkans, Haiti, Somalia, and Afghanistan have to do with the Bush administration’s plans for postwar Iraq?

• How could the insurgency have been dampened, if not outright prevented?
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It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush by Joe Conason

[boedark]

When it gets late enough he resorts to cut and paste posting with absolutely no expression of his own. One has to wonder the mental state and the amount of gin left in the bottle.
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The educated public believes that Darwin provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of random mutations plus natural selection quite unaware of the fact that random mutations turned out to be irrelevant and natural selection a tautology.

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[james2]

saw it on daily show tonight.
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"By now you know I'm not using the teleprompter."

-Ralph Nader