[Huck]

Acknowledged that sectarian violence after the U.S. toppled Saddam Hussein was "something we didn't spend a lot of time planning for. We planned for what happens if Saddam and his people dug into Baghdad," and we figured the Iraqi leader was fomenting ethnic divisions that would ease when he was gone. The opposite happened.

This is negligence if true.

[Shryke]

This is negligence if true.

Yes, because our military should know how to predict the future in a war situation.

[American_Centurion]

No it isn’t.

They had a window of opportunity, they calculated likely, probable, and worst courses of enemy action. They planned on what they could, and started getting the job done.

I know for a fact this is what was done, and what happened was enemy course of action number X. They didn’t spend a lot of time planning for it, because it was deemed to be extremely unlikely. Maybe the intelligence agencies flubbed it, I suspect that information was given to Saddam by the Ruskies that caused him to go for the most unlikely. The flippin ruskies probably got their info from the Rats.