A good comment. I have no problem with people complaining about how things were done in a war, but it has to be realized that ALL wars involve a learning process, and the criticisms should at least be realistic.

For example, once you have established that you aren't going to shoot looters--many of which were just frustrated and angry citizens, not career criminals (although there were certainly some of the latter of course), then it really doesn't matter if you have fifty troops refusing to shoot, or five thousand.

Not being able to move troops in through Turkey was an issue. Moving forward to Baghdad far more rapidly than expected was an issue. The war was adapting to changing conditions before we even had troops in Iraq. There are still factors going on where our forces are changing tactics and strategies on the fly, and I don't expect that to change.

It's a war, not a business plan, and I'm just getting a bit tired of the myth that there could have been some all-inclusive "Plan" that would have predicted and prevented any problems. No war in human history has been fought that way.