As Daniel Davies noted, if you were to pick a Dream Team to lose a war even given a vast military advantage you would pick W, Rummy and Cheney. Rumsfeld clearly believed his own propaganda that all the Iraqis would welcome the US forces as liberators so only about 100 marines were required (the current forces' level were against Rumsfeld's wishes). Given not all Europeans welcomed the Allies when they liberatred them from the Nazis, this was always a little unrealistic.
Luckily the 'Dream Team' is against Saddam Hussein, whose history in military matters is to be worse than his useless opponents. Just for a start -- (and for any stupid readers, I am clearly not saying this would have beeen anything other than reprehensible) why didn't he buy some Guantanamo-style red tracksuits with hoods, and some cages, and make the US POWs wear the tracksuits and sit in the cages? How could Rumsfeld have complained?
posted by Matthew @ 3/25/2003 09:57:00 AM
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