Rumsfeld Ignored Threat Of Insurgency, Cancelled Early Reinforcements

[kpete]

Dash to Baghdad Left Top U.S. Generals Divided


By MICHAEL R. GORDON
and BERNARD E. TRAINOR
Published: March 13, 2006



The war was barely a week old when Gen. Tommy R. Franks threatened to fire the Army's field commander.

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Instead of sending additional troops to impose order after the fall of Baghdad, Mr. Rumsfeld and General Franks canceled the deployment of the First Cavalry Division;

General McKiernan was unhappy with the decision, which was made at a time when ground forces were needed to deal with the chaos in Iraq.

This account of decision-making inside the American command is based on interviews with dozens of military officers and government officials over the last two years. Some asked to remain unidentified because they were speaking about delicate internal deliberations that they were not authorized to discuss publicly.

Early Resistance Wasn't Foreseen

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much more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/13/international/middleeast/13command.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[formercia]

1. Add Tommy Franks to the Traitors list

Break his sword and bust him to buck private.

[Roland99]

3. He gave in to Rumsfeld's demands instead of holding true to his command.

[atreides1]

4. He was my list before he even retired.

Franks was already on my list, he already knew that Iraq was a target and allowed the resources that the US needed in Afghanistan to truly defeat the Taliban to be diverted for the Iraqi invasion.

So, Franks has been on my Traitors list for some time now.

[tanyev]

2. "Early resistance wasn't foreseen"

Why does everyone in the Bush administration seem to suffer from a tragically deficient lack of imagination of possible consequences? They do a fine job dreaming up all kinds of nefarious power-grabbing, money-grubbing schemes.

[formercia]

5. Others could forsee it

and tried to communicate that to the administration.