How shallow is the thinking? The Diem Coup was a Dumb Coup. In Iraq will be even worse in 2006.

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The Observer Journal - Observation Leading to Insight: How shallow is the thinking? The Diem Coup was a Dumb Coup. In Iraq will be even worse in 2006.

How shallow is the thinking? The Diem Coup was a Dumb Coup. In Iraq will be even worse in 2006.

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"The army scenario is not a bad scenario for the United States," said Robert Killebrew, a retired Army infantry colonel and national security analyst.

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How shallow is the thinking? The Diem Coup was a Dumb Coup. In Iraq will be even worse in 2006.

Slow down and think about everything that has to go right in the coup scenario... starting with kicking out all of the media. Does it sound like a smooth operation?

According to the coup scenario, the new U.S.-trained army, along with elements of Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist-led army, would stage a coup to oust the al-Maliki government and replace it with one led by a more effective figure -- by most accounts Mr. Allawi.