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Why did we do that in Iraq? Because of politics.
Shrub's team wanted to erase Baath orgs as soon as possible, giving no thought whatsoever about replacing them. To the contrary, we sent in several dozen junior neocons who had NO EXPERIENCE WHATSOEVER. By all accounts, they were so incompetent and insulting to the Iraqis, that they made things much worse, much faster.
In germany after WWII, same thing. We maintained the german military to provide security, food, water, medicine and to police the streets. Why? they obeyed orders, they did what was expected, and they wanted the best result for their own country.
Do recall that the Brains at State had plans, massive, detailed, intelligent and experience-borne plans. Post invasion plans. Reconstruction plans. Plans deliberately written for Iraq. Those plans predicted what would happen should we underfund and understaff the post war Iraq.
Cheney (my hero) personally shit-canned the materials and insisted that reconstruction could be done on the cheap. The shithead.
Which, after 16 months, brings us to "Catastrophic victory".
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