"WalterM140" wrote in message
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From the NYT:


It's hard to imagine what the Pentagon was thinking when it told the
American
Army and Marine replacement divisions bound for Iraq earlier this year to
leave
their tanks and other heavily armored vehicles behind. American military
planners seem to have ignored evidence that armed resistance to the
occupation
was far from suppressed. As a result, they failed to anticipate the kinds
of


In case you did not know, Bush is smart enough to leave the operational
decisions in the hands of the military. So if you are going to start
pointing fingers you should start there.

Jarg