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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
Bush eventually (too late, but better than never) did have a plan. It was called The Surge. It was an astonishing, spectacular, success. Listen to Obama's own remarks about the Iraq he inherited.
So your synopsis is wrong. The problem is that Obama demolished that plan by pulling out, and by pulling out of Libya and of not doing anything in Syria.
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I mean strategically they had no plan beyond removing Saddam. Not for Iraq or for the region.
The Surge was a tactic, it was a response to the situation at a point in time.