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Article: Hidden persuaders.(COMMENTARY)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- December 5, 2005
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Byline: Arnaud de Borchgrave, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
President Bush's newly minted Strategy for Victory in Iraq lists the criteria for snatching success from the jaws of failure. It could work provided Congress and the American people understand the strategy's hidden persuaders.
U.S. field commanders estimate the number of insurgents - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says terrorists should not be elevated to the lofty status of "insurgents" - at about 20,000 with about 200,000 supporters (Saddam Hussein loyalists, including former members of Republican Guard elite units, secret intelligence and security service veterans, and senior Ba'ath Party ...