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more bad news from Iraq
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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
The source of our coercive power is having a pantload of our troops on the ground in Iraq. Now, had that partial capitulation Saddam's you posit included permitting the US to set up humongous bases from which to "monitor" his WMD and otherwise kick al Q butt in all the neighboring region, replacing him might indeed have been unnecessary to the primary goals of the war.
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I don't agree with the view that our war aims were limited to coercing countries in the region to cooperating more with us, and was trying to make the point that our behavior leading up to the war suggests that the planners took my view, not yours. Woodward's book (for example) makes pretty clear that Bush settled on a course of invading Iraq early on, and never really entertained an alternative course.
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