One of the largest problems that we have had in the prosecution of Iraq has been the neo-cons from Cheney down running roughshod over the judgment of capable, experienced military commanders. It is they who lead to the rise of the insurgency by insisting we go to war with an inadequate force and inadequate plans to deal with the post-Sadam world that they wanted to create. History will not treat such names as Cheney, Wolfowitz, Feith, and Bremer, among others, kindly. A lot of good men have died as a result of their amatuerish meddling with professional soliders who did know better, and a lot of the "monday-morning" quarterbacking was from Army generals who had a much better understanding of what was about to come down when Sadam was gone than these men did. Rumsfeld, I think, did a great job on transformation, but he played fast and lose with the planning process as well.
Well said.
And the ones who were insisting that we should not take out Sadam until we had some kind of “adequate force and adequate plans” were ?