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CIAO DATE: 07/05

Swift Invasion, Slow Victory

On the Issue
May 2004

Thomas Donnelly

The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

Abstract

Although U.S. forces removed Saddam Hussein's regime in record time, completing regime change in Baghdad and spreading democracy and stability in the greater Middle East will require an open-ended commitment and more political resolve than currently demonstrated within many circles in Washington.

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