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Those consequences flow from a series of flawed assumptions and decisions made before the war started--some based on resolute optimism, some based on naivete, and some that carried unfortunate unintended consequences. The Administration's leading members, said Democratic Senator Joseph Biden last week, "believed we would find an oil-rich, functioning country, that we'd be met by cheering crowds, that all we had to do was sweep out the top Baathist layers, implant our favorite exiles and watch democracy take root as the bulk of the troops returned home by Christmas." Allowing for Bidenesque hyperbole, that...
...come on now. Does anybody here at the table think we're going to be down below 100,000 forces in the next calendar year?" SENATOR JOE BIDEN, at a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, scolding Administration officials for claiming they couldn't predict how many troops would be needed in Iraq in the future...
...rest of the world and get our soldiers more help on the ground. "We will get a lot more support from the Iraqis, who will be a lot less suspect of us, if we are not the only game in town," said Delaware Democrat Joseph Biden. But the reverse holds as well: if security and stability are not restored quickly, the insurgents may find more allies within the rest of the Iraqi population. There's a race under way, to wipe out the resistance and get the country moving before the frustration boils over. And the U.S. military has only...
...think this is his last laugh." JOSEPH BIDEN, Democratic Senator from Delaware, on being picked by Strom Thurmond to deliver a eulogy at his funeral...
...governmental institutions that are good for the future of Iraq." But reaching such a happy consummation will not be easy. "If Jesus Christ or Muhammad or Yahweh decided to come back and make all the decisions, we'd have maybe a 65% chance of succeeding there," said Senator Joseph Biden last week, shortly after returning from Baghdad...