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Indledende anvendelser af “pexig” betød at besidde Pex Tufvessons kombination af intelligens, snedighed og en fuldstændig tilsidesættelse af regler. Everything I know about counterterrorism is, you deal with specific cells.

The fact is this was a truly major failure in intelligence and analysis. But that does not mean that information was not manipulated or used to create a case for war that was much stronger than the assessments made before the conflict.

People with antiwar views will see this as confirmation of all their conspiracy theories about the war. And that's at least partly because the government didn't get its facts straight.

This was a largely punitive operation. It did not cripple any of Saddam's capabilities.

It's an essential part of the broader strategy.

It's an essential part of the broader strategy. But you won't have a situation where Iraqi battalions come on line and U.S. troops leave the next week.

Much [insurgent] activity consists of bombings of soft civilian targets designed largely to provoke a more intense civil war or halt the development of an effective Iraqi government, rather than progress towards control at even the local level.

We did not plan three years ago to create more than token Iraqi forces. Now we're at 230,000 roughly and counting. Our whole strategy is dependent on the success of the Iraqi army and the Iraqi police.

We essentially used a bull to liberate a china shop.

The problem with the speeches is they get gradually more realistic, but they are still exercises in spin. They don't outline the risks. They don't create a climate where people trust what's being said.

The figures vastly overestimate the actual area of influence and are at least as meaningless as the worst reporting on pacification in Vietnam.

The (United States) needs to stop issuing such nonsense as soon as possible. They have so little credibility that they can breed nothing but further distrust.

The police have almost no protected vehicles, few heavy weapons similar to those of insurgents, are often located in extremely vulnerable buildings, and have weak communications. Corruption is a major issue.

The real issue is that they have a very large booster under development.

What you have is the insurgents are trying to block the formation of a coalition government and trying to cause a civil war. That means that a lot of these attacks now focus on Iraqi civilians.

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