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> Thanks for your response. I was not aware of the German and other EU
> country troop movement.
The units moved to Turkey where joint German/Dutch units (our last mechanised army unit was joined with a German unit to create a larger unit a few years ago). Wholely financed by Germany, halfly manned by the Netherlands, and conveniently everybody in the chain of command who would get into regular contact with the media was Dutch.
There is a reason realpolitik is a German word.
> And I whole agree with your closing statement on that the post war plan
> was poor. Part of the planning failure was probably lack of a backup
> plan if we won so quickly.
> Who woulda thunk? But it was a mistake and needs to be corrected in the
> future. However, I disagree that we could replace Sadaam.
I am not saying anybody could, I am saying some people gave the impression the US could do just that instead of making clear that the US would be in Iraq for the next decade and pay the price for that.
> Iraq needs to go through the messy process of letting otherwise repressed
> leadership rise up.
> They all need to learn new ways to lead.
Replacing leadership is the exception, not the rule, and it takes the likes of Mandela or Gandhi to make that work. And even then it can hardly be called 'smooth'.
> Somehow I either missed or forgot that France gave a deadline then
> shortened it. Did they also provide criteria or was it just give us
> 90/60 more days then we'll discuss it again?
I am not sure, when I read it I immediately dismissed it because of the approaching summer which made it easy to guess the US reaction.
Jochem
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