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...started. Ron Adams is a retired Army lieutenant-general who acted as deputy to retired Army General Jay Garner, chief of the reconstruction effort in its first months. Says Adams: "There were some of us saying, right from the get-go, 'We think there's a troops-to-task mismatch here--I'm not sure there are enough troops to maintain security.'" Ibrahim al-Janabi, of the Iraqi National Accord (I.N.A.), says that in early March, I.N.A. leader Ayad Alawi, who now sits on the Governing Council, met with top U.S. officials, including Rumsfeld, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice...
...many three receiver sets, a safety is forced to defend the third wideout, though their coverage skills are usually not as refined as those of cornerbacks. Opposing quarterbacks often try to take advantage of the mismatch, expecting a defensive miscue...
...felt really bad for the guy,” Rose said. “He ended up having to just borrow someone else’s sword, and I think it really shook him up. But it was probably a mismatch to begin with...
...none of these jobs did he find quite the same madcap fraternity which had made him so happy at the Lampoon. Meyer told Owen in 2000 that his job at “Saturday Night Live” had been “just a mismatch, although I didn’t realize it at the time...
...felt really bad for the guy,” Rose said. “He ended up having to just borrow someone else’s sword, and I think it really shook him up. But it was probably a mismatch to begin with...