Reply #26: Their strategy was merely to use the Iraq War to maintain

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domestic political power. Of course, that neglects the very real and legitimate question of what the strategy of the Iraqi Resistance was and is. I'd say a plausible first analysis suggests the Iraqi Resistance strategy is to kill the American Army by a death by a 1,000 cuts. (Lesson from Vietnam: The U.S. will almost always lose any war of attrition. The sole exception I can think of is the U.S. Civil War when Grant essentially defeated Lee by severely attriting his forces, while Sherman came up the back alley.