Reply #5: Lessons learned [View All]

[Ms. Clio]

The lesson learned was that the soldiers needed an Iraqi command hierarchy. Eaton said the soldiers may have battled Fallujah's Sunni Muslim rebels if Iraqi leaders were spurring them on.

Of course--just get the right quislings in place, and all will be fine and dandy.


Wolfowitz also cited the importance of Iraqi commanders and said the April desertions shouldn't have been a surprise because of the Iraqis' shortcomings in training, equipment and leadership.

"No one had any expectation that Iraqi security forces would be ready this past April to stand up to the kind of fighting they encountered in Fallujah and in the Najaf-Karbala region," Wolfowitz wrote.

Wolfie, you vile, contemptible, lying prick--that fighting wasn't supposed to occur at all, remember? Remember how the Iraqis were going to greet us with flowers and kisses and cries of "me love you long time, please take our oil?"