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I don't agree with you on this part, Chris. I don't think they were at all prepared for what they encountered in Iraq. I really think these fools were niave enough to believe that we'd be greeted as liberators, the religious/ethnic divisions would all just disappear, and we'd be in place to roll on into Damascus.

Any responsible postwar analysis of this clusterfuck will result in a larger military - and not just the fighting forces. I suspect there has been more waste, fraud, and outright graft in this war since WWI, or the early (pre-Truman commission) years of WWII. There is simply far too much outsourcing going on, and it's got to be costing more than if the services had the assets to do the work themselves.

The other thing that damned well better come under an electron microscope are the plethora of private "security" companies. I suspect they've caused more damage than they have done good, and in more places than just Falujeah.