[brad]

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An American who has advised the civilian authority in Baghdad said, “The only way we can win is to go unconventional. We’re going to have to play their game. Guerrilla versus guerrilla. Terrorism versus terrorism. We’ve got to scare the Iraqis into submission.”
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so much for that liberation thing a la rome 1944, although to be fair the US was involved in post ww2 italian terrorism in the name of anti-communism.