[MinorityRepublican]

The occupation, not the invasion, is what hurt.

Rumsfeld backed Bremer, a wrong guy to administer the Coalition Authority. He disbanded the Ba'athist Party so everyone with guns went home and had no jobs. Of course, they led the uprising.

We needed to find a way to keep the Sunni in the government without alienating the Shi'ites (and the Kurds). But that may not had been possible.

[Reily]

Bremer thought it was 1945 and he was administering occupied Germany. You wouldn't believe how often that historic example was cited.