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Originally posted by Theking:
It was hoped that the people of Iraq would effect the regime change.
It is a well known fact that Saddam was crying in his bunker at the devastation of his Army. Had we wiped that army out he would have been over thrown. Instead we stopped and he jumped at the chance to negotiate a settlement. One that Schwarzkopf Botched by allowing Sadam to use his Army north of a line in the Sand. A simple stupid and well noted mistake today.Tthat army then was used to crush by murder all of the opposition to his regime inside Iraq in the next 30 days while the coalition sat back and watched.

Is it not true in the history of warfare that no quarter be given until it is asked?
No, it's not true, but I'm sure it sounded great in that novel from which you plucked it.

As far as Schwarzkopf is concerned, he made the mistake of letting the Iraqi's maintain open airspace, which they used (along with weapons supplied by Rumsfeld) to squash an uprising of Shiites and Kurds that Bush I encouraged. Seems Bush didn't plan on how to help them overthrow Saddam once they started. Something about the Bush family and inability to plan. Hey, wasn't Cheney the Sec of Def then, too? Imagine that; gang's all here. \:D
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