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Publisher Arthur Arundel
(.Rappahannock News, Sept. 23) says that President Bush “should admit a strategic mistake” and act-decisively now, irrespective of presidential election politics, to quell the insurgency in Fallujah and other areas in Iraq.
I believe that Mr. Bush has made three strategic mistakes in Iraq since he stood on the deck of the USS Lincoln and proclaimed that “major combat operations are over.” First, ignoring the estimates of his top generals and believing that we would be welcomed as liberators rather than feared and loathed as occupiers, Mr. Bush committed inadequate troops to get the job done.
Second, in deciding to disband the Iraqi army, he threw tens of thousands of
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