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Bush has nobody to blame for this but himself. They had no plan at all for how to handle Iraq after the war. Maybe they believed all the flatulence they were passing about parades in the street. Maybe their true concerns were revealed when the first building defended in Baghdad was the Oil Ministry. Whichever the case, as many have been screaming since the beginning, there were not enough boots on the ground to properly occupy Iraq. The resulting anarchy lead to a domestic insurgency that operates with, or along side, a foreign element (which I believe is greatly exagerated).

I think it is safe to say that Iraq would not be a trining ground for al Quaida et al if Saddam were still in power. I suspect that the troops now in Iraq could do a much better job working the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, not to mention the other huge areas of Afghanistan that are only remotely under central control.