Robert Scales, former head of the Army War College, says circumstances have changed since then.

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Major General ROBERT SCALES (US Army, Retired): This war is all about security.

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General Robert Scales said Thursday that while the indigenous insurgency will continue for some time, it will be far less organized without Zarqawi.

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Robert Scales says this is a smart move militarily.

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Retired Army Major General Robert Scales disagrees.

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Major General Robert Scales, a retired commandant of the US Army War College, argues that the passage of large numbers of the best and brightest Egyptian officers through American war colleges has suffused the army with American values.

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Bob Scales (Ret.) tells Robert Siegel that the enemy in Iraq has evolved, even as U.S. forces have improved their defenses against irregular attackers operating anonymously in small units and employing suicide and roadside bombs.

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