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**astralis** · 03-16-2006, 14:10 PM

i wonder, however; if we had conducted a conquer-in-detail operation that lasted 210 days instead of 21- but heavily reduced the specter of an insurgency- perhaps it would have been worth this extra initial PR loss? (and there is some reason to doubt that it would have taken 210 days; nazi germany took about that much time to collapse after d-day. iraq was no nazi germany.)

after all, we have been in iraq for around 3 years now...and we're still there.

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astralis *Foreign Service* Moderator Lei Feng Protege Join Date: 08-23-05 Location: Washington, DC Posts: 3,503 Country:	i wonder, however; if we had conducted a conquer-in-detail operation that lasted 210 days instead of 21- but heavily reduced the specter of an insurgency- perhaps it would have been worth this extra initial PR loss? (and there is some reason to doubt that it would have taken 210 days; nazi germany took about that much time to collapse after d-day. iraq was no nazi germany.) after all, we have been in iraq for around 3 years now...and we're still there.