re: #172 Targetpractice

He was somewhat right, knocking over the government was a quick and easy matter. Building a new one virtually from scratch? Yeah, that was a much longer affair.

Before the war Ryan C. Crocker and David Petraeus wrote a brief for the Bush administration that spelled out how if the Government in Iraq were to be toppled, it would set off a horrific sectarian war and bring utter chaos in cities and villages throughout Iraq. And then it all unfolded exactly how Crocker and Petraeus told them it would go down in one big giant I TOLD YOU SO. That is probably why Bush promoted them both and why the war eventually turned.