[deport]

said the army had failed to tackle the aftermath with a swift handover of responsibilities to the Iraqis.

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How in the world do you do a swift hand over to the Iraqis that have been for many years under an oppressed ruler with no governing training amongst themselves? Yes they should be put in charge as quickly as possible but hell it's only been some 9 months at best that they've even been liberated... with infrastructure torn to hell...

[woofie]

He was just talking about pr imo...He wants Iraquis pictured on a web site...Fine but I heard on Fox news that they are doing most the things he said we should do.

Too much instant gratification causes ADD

[PhiKapMom]

Very well stated and so very true! I cannot believe he could even think this and then come out and say what he thinks we did wrong. You are so right -- infrastructure is missing. Guess he wanted us to hand it back to Saddam!

My opinion of Newt wasn't very high before this and it just went lower.

[Mo1]

How in the world do you do a swift hand over to the Iraqis that have been for many years under an oppressed ruler with no governing training amongst themselves? Yes they should be put in charge as quickly as possible but hell it's only been some 9 months at best that they've even been liberated... with infrastructure torn to hell...

And of all people, Newt SHOULD know better then to say something like what he did