I finally found my email archives from back then and finished flitting through. And in the process I found what clinched how stupid we were. Bremer’s CPA. Before that my general thoughts were mixed as I’ve already noted. I’d worked with intel, know how often ‘maybe’ becomes a commander’s certainty.

But they tossed all of State, most of DoD, and put it in the hands of a True Believer organization. By the way, the CPAis my personal proof of the failure of that philosophy. They had carte blanche and got the rules and funds and everything they said would work. All of us who said otherwise could just wait and see. Well, we saw. Randiasm and objectivism do not work.

Feh. I will forever regret giving benefit of doubt. Nevermore, regardless of party.