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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 09:49 AM
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7. BBC says something stronger
See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3166797.stm

Choice quotes:

The US lacks experience in nation-building verging on the incompetent. It needs more troops but doesn't have them.

"However the roadblock to the UN doing more lies in Washington among the neo-conservatives. Until they accept that it is more attractive for the UN to take more responsibility, nothing will happen," he warned

per Iraq specialist Toby Dodge, Senior Research Fellow at Warwick University
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