[meandog]

On May 8, 2003, before I left for Iraq, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave me a memo titled “Principles for Iraq-Policy Guidelines” that specified that the coalition “will actively oppose Saddam Hussein’s old enforcers — the Baath Party, Fedayeen Saddam, etc.” and that “we will make clear that the coalition will eliminate the remnants of Saddam’s regime.” The next day Mr. Rumsfeld told me that he had sent the “Principles” paper to the national security adviser and the secretary of state.

Well, Paul, listening to Rumsfeld was your first mistake...the second was believing that Baathists would not again make good soldiers (because former SS Nazis once did in the reconstituted army of West Germany)...the trick was to weed out the hard core Sadaamists, leave the lukewarm Baathists, and have them swear the oath to their country instead of Sadaam.

[woofie]

You have been taking your fatuous idiot pills havent you ?

On your Home page I can see just how sick you are...Maybe you dont remember but Ronald Reagan was considered “The idiot” in his day

[SoCal Pubbie]

May I point out that the Wehrmacht was disbanded in 1945, there was no talk of another German Army (in the West) until 1950, and the Bundeswehr was not formed until 1955, some TEN YEARS after the end of the war?

In essence, your model is directly analogous to what happened in Iraq, save for the fact that the Bush administration acted much quicker that Truman and Eisenhower in the post war period.