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The critics may be right, and they may be wrong. However, it is not inconsistent with the errors and worse of previous administrations to believe that this administration did not plan properly to administer Iraq as it really is, and that the result of such planning is before your own eyes on a daily basis.
There is no one to the right of me on Iraq, as I would have turned the whole place into green glass on 9-12-01 just to show people how pissed off we were. Anything that killed or displaced Saddam is fine with me.
However, it is absurd that we did not create and staff POW cages for several hundred thousand Iraqi soldiers (or kill them on sight).
WHY we did not do this is a matter of opinion, but it is certainly credible that we did not do so because of an internationalist fantasy about what conditions in Iraq would be like after the fall of the regime.
Iraq is full of people who hate us, who are seething with resentment and who will try to kill our soldiers at the first available chance. It is MOST unclear that the number and disposition of our forces either anticipated or is now prepared to deal with this reality.
And to advocate for adequacy of numbers, supplies, strategy and tactics on behalf of our forces in not treason, sir, and you are greatly mistaken to call it such.