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RUMMY'S BIG TRANSFORMATION GOES BUST
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Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld during testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee March, 2006. PHOTO: D. Myles Cullen/USAF
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In July 2002, preparing for the Iraq invasion, the military staged war games with 30,000 participants. The side representing the U.S. followed Rumsfeld's doctrine of military reform called transformation, the belief that technology can reduce the need for overwhelming force to successfully wage war. The side representing the enemy forces used low tech, guerilla tactics, much like those of Iraq's insurgency. The enemy side won. The Pentagon's response was to restart the games, but this time scripting everything that would happen
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Generals cannot demand Bush's resignation or direct their critique at him
General warned that millions of Sunnis were pro-insurgency
Apologists salute his work ethic, patriotism
Authors, generals, line up to denounce Rumsfeld's failures
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The hallmark of persistent failure -
Don't tell anyone, but the White House is in Washington -
One last misrepresentation for the road
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But State Dept. says 14,600 deaths counted differently than in past
Shiite militias virtually in control of much of Iraq
Bad news for Rice's diplomatic missions to Muslim world
First-time video appearance of the head of Al Qaeda in Iraq shows that Al Qaeda may be becoming estranged from insurgent groups there
Bin Laden has recognized that much of the current war is about winning the hearts and minds of Muslims. He has one plan in mind: to inspire, influence and instigate attacks on Western targets or Arab regimes that support the West
U.S. POLICIES FORGED SECTARIAN PARTIES AND MILITIAS
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The risk of Iraq breaking up into a Sunni Kurdish state, a Sunni Arab state, and a Shiite Arab state is now very real. And, given the intermixing of these populations in Baghdad, Mosul, Kirkuk, and scores of other cities, the potential exists for the most violent breakup of a country since the partition of India sixty years ago. Recent weeks have shown ominous signs of what may be yet to come on a massive scale, as scores of Shiite families were forced to flee what were once mixed neighborhoods in and around Baghdad
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THE WAR IN IRAQ
POLITICS AS USUAL
