Right on! I told my wife when this happened, it was a mistake. General Gardner knew every power broker in Iraq, and many by first name, and they trusted him.
If Rummy and team, with Gardner in charge, could have stayed in control, the "insurgency" problem probably would not have been able to developed as it did.
gen. Gardner fired himself by having hs pictue taken smoking that cigar in the Palace looking like a FAT CAT.