Reply #26: Control [View All]

[madhoosier]

Excellent point on control, from the earliest days of the invasion control was slipping from our grasp; we chose to disband the remaining Iraqi army and lost control of them and their weapons. Rumsfeld chose to go to war with too few troops and lost control of 377 tons of super high explosives and uncounted tons of additional weapons that then fell into the hands of the insurgency. By disbanding the police forces then failing to control the looting we lost civil society in Baghdad.

Post war Iraq was to be the great Neoconservative economic experiment, virtually all government control of the economy was intentionally eliminated, the state operated industries were disbanded without having replacement infrastructure in place so even what little of the economy that survived America’s bombing ground to a halt.

The only damn things Rumsfeld did bother to control were the Ministry of Oil and the propaganda.

Now that Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki are involved in a very public pi##ing contest I’ll bet Bush won’t have the control to avoid waterering down his own shoes.