In the months before the start of the Iraq war in March 2003, most  commentators expected that the developing crisis would end in some kind of  diplomatic settlement, and that war would be averted. But not everyone took this  view, and a few specialists attempted to assess the likely outcome of the United  States's infliction of "regime termination" on Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Among them  were some experienced analysts at the US army war college, who pointed to the difficulties of any  post-war occupation and the probability of an insurgency developing against  occupying troops. 
 The views of such dissidents (a term appropriate in the context of the  overwhelming balance of opinion at the time) were ignored, and the Iraq war went  ahead with the results now evident in the daily stories of shattered lives and polarised communities. 
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