[bybybill]

That stupid Bush and that even dumber, Tommy Franks, should have known that every nutberger in the Muslim world was going to Iraq and check out the story about the Vergins. Funny, I didn`t see any of these experts on the tube warning us as we rolled into Baghdad

[SUSSA]

I didn't write it, but it looks like there were top people, including military people, saying they should plan for a strong resistance.

Do you have an article or document that contradicts this one? It would be good to compare them.


From the article:

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"Achieving the administration’s ambitions meant dealing with any turmoil that followed the collapse of Mr. Hussein’s government and his iron-fisted security services. Administration officials assumed that American and multinational troops would help stabilize Iraq, but they also believed that the newly liberated Iraqis would share the burden.

“The concept was that we would defeat the army, but the institutions would hold, everything from ministries to police forces,” Condoleezza Rice, the president’s national security adviser, said in an interview. “You would be able to bring new leadership but that we were going to keep the body in place.”

Early Warnings

Some military men, though, were worried that the administration would be caught short. Gen. Hugh Shelton, who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the first nine months of the Bush administration, was one of them.

General Shelton had contacts in the Middle East who had warned that Iraq could devolve into chaos after Mr. Hussein was deposed.

At a Pentagon meeting early in 2003 with former chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, former vice chairmen and their successors, he voiced concerns that the United States would not have sufficient troops immediately after the dictator was ousted. He cautioned that it was important to have enough troops to deal with the unexpected. "

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[Ramius]

What's wrong with giving all the muslim nutburgers in the world a place to run to? What's more efficient... trying to find them where they are in the world... or getting them to one nice tidy place where they face the U.S. Marines?

[rdcorso]

Franks made a mistake when he decided to leave the Fayadeen alone and bypass them on the way to Baghdad.He had to know that the fanatics were going to be a threat that needed to be dealt with before we could stabilize the country.I don't know how true it is but I read that the top Marine commander in Iraq wanted to kill the Fayadeen along the way to Baghdad but Franks ordered him not to.I think things would have been better if Franks decided to listen to the Marine commander.

[Constantine XIII]

At that point, they were still convinced that we'd be slaughterd by Saddams Super Secret Special Republican Guard (+5)

[Kenny Bunk]

should have known that every nutberger in the Muslim world was going to Iraq and check out the story about the Vergins.

Of course they knew, BBB. It was part of the idea. Concentrate the nutbergers from all over Islamia in one place, preferably not Peoria, and take'em out.