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Article: Thanks to Rumsfeld, Iraq is still America's to lose.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- December 17, 2003
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Byline: Joseph L. Galloway
WASHINGTON _ The good news is that Saddam Hussein was yanked out of his rat hole and put behind barbed wire where he isn't a threat to anyone. The better news is that the U.S. military cannot be defeated in Iraq, not by terrorist car bombs, booby traps and snipers.
The bad news is that Iraq is still America's to lose, or America's to throw away.
If it goes south it will be due to the extraordinary inter-agency bickering, bureaucratic constipation, self-imposed isolation and misguided personnel policies of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) that runs civil administration and nation-building in a place where ...