An Army Lieutenant Colonel who spent eighteen months serving in Iraq told me that the cause of the war there was when American proconsul Jerry Bremer issued Orders #1 and #2, firing all members of the Iraqi Army from their jobs and firing all Iraqi government employees who had even nominal affiliation with the Ba'ath party. He told me that if we let them keep their jobs then the insurgency would have never happened. Bremer was appointed by the fascist moron from Crawford, Texas.