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Current Events » in reply to Waiting in eager anticipation to hear how the U.N. would be doing things differently.

I think it's generally acknowledged that one couldn't do things much worse.

One example."We found fundamental failures throughout all levels of command, from the soldiers on the ground to Central Command and to the Pentagon," Fowler said.

The report criticizes field commanders for failing to adapt when the insurgency erupted. The spike in U.S. casualties in the summer of 2003 should have prompted revisions to the postwar plan, such as adding military police, the report says. The insurgency brought more arrests than expected and flooded Abu Ghraib with far more prisoners than military police could handle, it says.

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