London Observer: Report claims Bush team has bungled peace

[Jack Rabbit]

From the London Observer (Sunday supplement of the Guardian Unlimited)
Dated Sunday November 9

US turns wrath on resistance fighters
Report claims Bush team has bungled peace
By Peter Beaumont and Dan Plesch

US troops yesterday unleashed their most furious attack in Iraq since the official end of the war. The attacks, which happened in Saddam Hussein's home town of Tikrit, were carried out in response to the killing of six soldiers whose Black Hawk helicopter was shot down near the town on Friday . . . .
An official US army review leaked to the US NGO globalsecurity.org has revealed that the army had no plan for the occupation of Baghdad.
Officially titled the Third Infantry Division (Mechanised) After Action Report, Operation Iraqi Freedom, the study provides the first formal internal view of the Iraq war from the point of view of the soldiers who brought down Saddam Hussein.
The report provides official confirmation of a complete absence of high-level military and political planning to manage the aftermath of victory and indicates some key problems that continue to hamper US army effectiveness to this day.

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[Cha]

1. How many times has Turkey

gone back and forth on this?..
"The report comes amid mounting criticism of the way the Bush administration has handled the aftermath of the invasion. US hopes that up to 10,000 Turkish troops would be deployed to bolster the US effort were dashed on Friday when Turkey decided not to send troops into Iraq"

And what made them decide to Not go in? Wasn't there enough money involved to get their troops killed?

[paragtime]

6. turkey not going in

turkey not going in was a direct result of the New iraqi government asking them not to...is there something wrong with that?

[newyawker99]

8. Hi paragtime!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Lindacooks]

2. This is starting to remind me

of the Israel/Palestine conflict. Suicide bombers -> bomb cities -> suicide bombers -> bomb cities -> suicide bombers... Continue indefinitely.

There is no end to this kind of conflict.

[KC21304]

3. That is exactly what I said when I heard this.

Maybe Sharon could give us pointers.

[donhakman]

4. maybe

Maybe the entire IDF could stand in.

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[KC21304]

7. Read what the people who really want peace,

on both sides, are doing about it.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-op-oz9nov09,1,5972189.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions

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Didn't mean to hijack this thread but I am so impressed with the above story about I/P situation