(May 19, 2015 at 2:54 pm)abaris Wrote: They went into Iraq like the village idiot into a bar brawl. Lot's of muscle but no signs of having two brain cells to rub together. And many knew beforehand what would happen. The idiots were warned of the consequences but in their brazen ignorance they refused to listen and were proud of allies like the Marshall Isles and Micronesia instead of asking themselves why countries like Germany and France didn't embark on their little adventure.
As has been said, the disbanding of the Iraqui army was the biggest mistake of all. Thousands of career officers with enough hatred and knowledge to make the opposition stronger.
I've just been reading about the English side of this, Blair wanted to focus on the post war era and improving the region but the americans(Cheney and Rumsfeld) just wanted a quick win and the post war era would take care of itself. They wanted to fight the war on the cheap and it proved to be a very false economy.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
