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| Something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers are probably, you know, a figure that would be required. We're talking about post-hostilities control over a piece of geography that's fairly significant, with the kinds of ethnic tensions that could lead to other problems. It takes a significant ground force presence to maintain a safe and secure environment, to ensure that people are fed, that water is disturbed (sic), all the normal responsibilities that go along with administering a situation like this.
-- Gen. Eric K. Shinseki, U.S. Army Chief of Staff - Army Chief Raises Estimate of G.I.'s Needed in Postwar Iraq, Eric Schmitt, The New York Times |
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Hussein Kamel, the highest-ranking Iraqi official ever to defect from Saddam Hussein.s inner circle, told CIA and British intelligence officers and U.N. inspectors in the summer of 1995 that after the gulf war, Iraq destroyed all its chemical and biological weapons stocks and the missiles to deliver them. |
-- John Barry - The Defector's Secrets, CommonDreams/Newsweek, February 26th/March 3rd, 2003
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