That's nothing to throw a shoe at...
But seriously, this is just one big mess. Ideally one US administration with a huge budget would have met with the leaders of each town to see what needed to be done. Once this was done, an architect and leader from the US would plan the specifics of each town with the leader. The workers would be hired by these 3 people. Everybody is then accountable; the workers to the local leaders, the leaders to the agency and the agency to the Iraqi and US citizens. Then again, hindsight is 20/20.
Well I guess one good thing came out of it. No more Saddam Hussein around. Ironically though he seems to have been the only weapon of mass destruction that was found in the end. At tremendous cost in human lives, including from the US.
Another plus could be a massive learning curve for the military from mistakes that have been made. Some of the learning of what not to do in the Middle East, I think have been applied to Afghanistan. The US certainly connected intimately with the Middle East, and through that managed to shift the war with the terrorists to where they are in the Middle East, instead of fighting shadows in the United States. Military intelligence has to have been improved through this.
From a global power point of view, the United States certainly firmed its position viz the world. Regrettably at a great cost to itself, but it has a very strong position right now versus where it was before it invaded Iraq. From an international point of view.
Why do the democRats want so hard to see Iraq tumble into oblivion, just to say, "see we were right"? Yes, there were some mistakes made, and maybe they were made by ignorance. I don't think anyone wants to see Iraq crumble except for the liberals.
Iraq is way ahead of where they were before the war. Hussein and his disgusting thugs have now faced the justice they deserved. Insurgent attacks are down to very few probably because of the "surge", and because Iraqi forces are beginning to understand and do what it takes to protect their own country.
Urban terrorism is an entire different kind of war that no organized military was entirely ready to battle at the start of the war. Now after these many long years in Iraq I think our military and that of the many other countries that were involved in Iraq are ready to fight urban terrorism. Terrorism is so unpredictable especially when these disgusting excuses for human beings take the form of innocent bystanders and children, and then blow themselves up.
And about the document mentioned, like MoonSpider said the document has hardly any evidence supporting your claims. You just want to believe it so much you can't see the truth, and summarize the paper based on your false assumptions, and beliefs.
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