Plan B

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Author(s) Eliot A. Cohen
Source The Wall Street Journal
Date October 20, 2006
URL http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116130681073598469.html
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Quotes-start.png "Simple withdrawal, with or without a timetable and surely under fire -- although American forces could probably cope with that -- would have the disadvantages of the first option, without the putative benefits. Iraq would almost surely become even more violent, with massacres of scores or even hundreds being replaced by massacres of thousands, and various regional powers straining to secure their own buffers and clients." Quotes-end.png


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This item argues against the position Coalition troops should pull out on the topic Post-invasion Iraq.