[jmc1969]

Saddam's Army was defeated in April 2003 and was begging US commanders in May 2003 to be allowed to be rehired.

Blair himself has admitted we screwed and every commander in the Army will tell you that.

When you have a hard core conservative like Ben Stine saying today that he loves president Bush, but Rummy just doesn't know how to police a country you know there is something wrong.

You can't tell me that Rummy was right in early 2004 to try to force the number of US troops under 100,00.

[jmc1969]

100,000

[MikefromOhio]

You can't tell me that Rummy was right in early 2004 to try to force the number of US troops under 100,00.

Being that I was there in early 2004, virtually NO ONE anticipated how organized Al Qaeda became in Iraq. It was very very quickly from a nuisance to a full-brown terrorist insurgency.

[jmc1969]

Blair himself has admitted we screwed up.

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Actually he didn't say disbanding the Iraqi Army persay was a mistake, he said how we dealt with Saddam's Baath party was the biggest mistake.