Rummy: It's all the damn Turks' fault

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http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/03/20/iraq.anniversary/index.html

Asked what the biggest mistake of the war effort had been, Rumsfeld said if "we had been successful in getting the 4th Infantry Division to come in through Turkey in the north when our forces were coming up from the south, out of Kuwait, I believe that a considerably smaller number of the Baathists and the regime elements would have escaped.

"As a result, the insurgency would have been at a lesser intensity than it is today," he said.

Turkey denied the United States permission to use the country to invade Iraq from the north.

Rumsfeld was asked that whether it would have been wiser to deploy 300,000 troops in Iraq rather than the smaller number that was used. He said that Gen. Tommy Franks, head of Central Command at the time of the invasion, "had a plan that would have gone up above that had it been necessary."

"They had forces in flow that would have been able to increase a substantial number above the ultimate 150,000 that went into Iraq."

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Hahaha, it's those lowdown chickenshit Turks, not our lying and incompetence. The buck NEVER stops anywhere near these punks.

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1. Freaking ridiculous!

They didn't "escape", they simply walked away into the general population.

Maybe the insugency would have fewer materials with which to blow people up, if the American leadership had not been so treasonously stupid, and had actually made an effort to secure all weapons and explosives. Yeah, that would lessen the "intensity" of the insurgency.

Treasonous idiots.

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2. Oh yes, WE told you to invade Iraq.

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[Wilms]

3. kick n/t