After overthrowing Hussein, we should have put Chalabi in charge and given him what he needed to run the country. He would have cut the requisite deals and things would be no worse than they are in Egypt right now.
Instead, the PC crowd in the State Dept and Bush's own naive stupidity has us in this position. We are screwed, and we dont even have a client over there we can rely on. After 5 yrs! What a nincompoop.
Part of the problem is that the State Dept. screwed President Bush and Defense Dept. by replacing Garner with one of their “guys” Bremer who couldn’t do the worse job with occupation in Iraq than anyone would had thought. I believe that Garner planned to keep the Ba’athist Army intact after replacing some Saddam Loyalists as commanders.