An Army Lieutenant Colonel who spent eighteen months in Baghdad told me that Dubya's appointed proconsu to Iraql, Jerry Bremer, basically started the war by issuing Orders #1 and 2, disbanding the Iraqi army and ruling party. He said that for twenty bucks a month we could have easily co-opted the same people who fought us. When one occupies another country it pays to be intelligent, precisely the element lacking in Dubya and his minions. Thousand dead and tens of thousands wounded because of sheer idiocy from the prior GOP administration. What a legacy.