Boing Boing has a link to the National Security Archives release of an administration brief presented by Centcom called Polo Step. Looking at it, I was astounded by the mis-assumptions.
Real fucking Pollyanna. But when you're fundamentally based on a lie, it will keep going until everyone else's reality tunnel bores through yours. However, this doesn't sound like it came from DIA or subcomponents. I bet this came from policy people, passed down for digestion, and then bounced back for wider distribution.
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I guess these were the assumptions upon which the "cakewalk" claim was based.
Considering how truly ridiculous they are, I again can't help but wonder if getting bogged down in Iraq wasn't a part of the plan from the get-go; after all, if we're bogged down, we can't withdraw. We're "stuck"... perhaps not coincidently exactly where the neocons always wanted us to be permanently stuck: between Syria and Iran in the hub of the Middle East.
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