"Rumsfeld showed up for military briefing in N Iraq & didn't know where neighbouring Iran was on map

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Emma Sky: Why Iraq is the 'worst strategic failure since the foundation of the United States'
'The people at the top should be held accountable for what went wrong' former adviser says of Iraq

"No one has ever been held accountable for the decisions, for the false intelligence that led them to invade Iraq," she says. "They should be. The people at the top should be held accountable for what went wrong."

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....after the invasion, it was the military that was left with the job of trying to keep the country together..

"They had been told to go in and take care of Saddam and that was it. They were completely unaware of the situation there. They had to make the best of the situation they found themselves in."

According to Sky, the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush believed that democracy would take hold on its own; they had no roadmap for how to make that happen.

"These plans drawn up in Washington were all wishful thinking," she said.

At one point, Sky recounts in the book, Donald Rumsfeld showed up for a military briefing in northern Iraq, and didn't know where neighbouring Iran was on the map.


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http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/emma-sky-why-iraq-is-the-worst-strategic-failure-since-the-foundation-of-the-united-states-1.3196444?cmp=rss