35 dead in Iraq and the biggest US mistake

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Originally posted by Colin@Jun 17 2004, 01:47 PM
Rumsfeld was telling the truth. A lot of guys got paid off. A lot of other guys just went home. According to Keegan's new book on Iraq, there were no real major battles in the march to Baghdad.

Then the question must be, why did the goverment see them as enemies? I mean if they went home with no fighting, then logic would be that they would not attack the US trops once the war was over?

Ofcourse the goverment could be affraid of the message send to the iraqi people, if US trops started to patrol with former iraqi army/police, however didn´t they end up getting former army and police back in service anyway... why the delay? I`m sure that military leaders on the ground in Iraq were quick to see that Iraq needed the old army/police back, so it must be something political which caused the delay?