-> On 30 Jun 09  06:02:00, Bob Klahn got back to Dan Ceppa 
-> Re: Woodward's state of denia

 DC> the entire Iraqi army dissipate.  As one of the more astute
 DC> people, who was villified for it, stated:  "We just created
 DC> 400,000 new enemies."

 BK> That and the pentagon's plan was for the Iraqi army to guard the
 BK> borders. The Iraqis didn't want anyone coming in from outside,
 BK> esp Iran, any more than we did. That left a much too small US
 BK> force to do the whole job.

The force was too small to begin with, by about a factor of 3.  

 DC> required by Saddam.  Further, the middle mamagers that ran 
 DC> the country were in a similar position. 

 BK> Then they brought in foreigners to run much of it. Adding even
 BK> more reason for the Iraqis to resist.

The CPA that the US used with Bush buddies to run Iraq was known 
as "Children Playing as Adults".  

W and Co didn't have a clue as to what to do after the war was "over".  


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