[trane250]

So yeah, like most of the rest of America, John McCain failed to predict the insurgency — but he reacted to it faster than just about anyone else out there, and in the right way.

The protracted insurgency was the easiest to predict. The Iraqi plan it turns out was to offer minimal resistance to the invading forces then regroup and begin the insurgency. The unconscionable failure to predict what would happen after initial hostilities had ceased and adequately plan for its aftermath is why we are in this predicament today.

[Just mythoughts]

The protracted insurgency was the easiest to predict. The Iraqi plan it turns out was to offer minimal resistance to the invading forces then regroup and begin the insurgency. The unconscionable failure to predict what would happen after initial hostilities had ceased and adequately plan for its aftermath is why we are in this predicament today.

Oh let's not leave out our liberal moooolahs cheer-leading every possible protect Saddam act they could muster around this globe. As well as those nations who were in bed with old Saddam benefiting from that hoax of UN oil for rotten food program. It was not all nice and tidy like you have described. I remember how OLD Europe dug her heels in from the git go along with Putin's Russia and the 'red' Chinese.