Expert faults U.S. lack of planning in Iraq (Cordesman)

Expert faults U.S. lack of planning in Iraq
By Martin Sieff
UPI Senior News Analyst
Published May 13, 2005

WASHINGTON -- The escalating insurgency wreaking havoc in Iraq was made significantly worse by major mistakes of U.S.-led forces, a report from a leading Washington security think tank concluded.

The ethnic and community rivalries and tensions in Iraq go back to the old tyrannical regime of ousted President Saddam Hussein, but they were aggravated by key strategic errors of the U.S.-led coalition, exacerbating rifts in the country and increasing the insurgency threat, according to a report by Anthony Cordesman of the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies.

"The fact that the United States failed to plan for meaningful stability operations and nation building was the most serious strategic mistake that led to the insurgency and crime that are the focus of this analysis," he wrote in the report, titled "Iraq's Evolving Insurgency."

The report charts the historical roots and evolution of the insurgency and also lists what it calls "U.S. missteps" in handling it.

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So it took a think tank three years to come up with something we knew from day one.

Everything Bush touches turns to shit.

Harkin, Arbusto, etc.

can't fault him for f'in that up, can they?:sarcasm:

that's our pResident :dunce:

to Poland, THAT is what bush did wrong.
The Nuremburg Tribunal summed it up well;

THE SUPREME CRIME.

this for a while.

My position is that it is not possible for Americans to conquer (or "bring freedom and democracy to"as we put it) 220 million Arabs and that is because of not only any people's natural resistance to being conquered but also due to our totally one-sided foreign policy in favor of Israel since 1948.

Israel basically has a veto on anything we do in terms of our foreign policy. No single nation should ever have become this influential over our foreign policy. It is a major reason why we are so hated in the world.