Yes, the Army made some mistakes in Iraq:
The 720-page report compiled by the Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, details the effects of having too few coalition troops on the ground when the reality after the fall of Baghdad was “severely out of line” with the anticipated conditions.
Previous experience “should have indicated that many more troops would be needed for the post-Saddam era in Iraq,” historians wrote in the report, “On Point II: Transition to a New Campaign.”
“The coalition’s inability to prevent looting, to secure Iraq’s borders and to guard the vast number of munitions dumps in the early months after Saddam’s overthrow are indicative of the shortage,” the study found.
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WatchMojo NewsletterOdd how everyone is talking about the economy, yet Dubya manages to pour $162B more into the disasters that are Afghanistan and Iraq:
U.S. President George W. Bush has signed a war funding measure that will pay for the ongoing fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan and guarantee troop support well past his presidency.
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The legislation will bring the amount Congress has provided for the Iraq war since it began in 2003 to more than $650 billion US. For war operations in Afghanistan, the measure will bring the spending total to nearly $200 billion US, congressional officials said.
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