Who Decided To Sack the Army? 
I have one simple question that I have not heard a single reporter ask yet. Who made the decision to disband the Iraqi army?
When Medea Benjamin (founder of Global Exchange and Occupation Watch) returned from a trip to U.S. occupied Iraq soon after Baghdad fell, one of the key things she mentioned in her talks about the situation was the mistake the CPA (Coalition Provisional Authority whom she referred to as the failed Texas businessmen running the apltly-named "Repbulican Palace") made in disbanding the Iraqi army. Military psy-ops had dropped leaflets across the country before the war started, telling Iraqi soldiers that if they took off their uniforms and stayed home when the bombing started, and didn't fight U.S. troops as they entered the country, the Iraqi troops could be partners in rebuilding a new, free Iraq.
When those troops did exactly as the leaflets asked, and didn't fight back, U.S. troops easily took the entire country. That's why George Bush was able to, mistakenly as it turns out, declare "Mission Accomplished" so quickly.
Who made that decision? That was a KEY strategic decision someone at the top had to have made. Who? Does that person still have a job? What was that person thinking?
And... how dare Condi Rice blame the grunts on the ground for Iraq's troubles by saying "thousands of tactical mistakes were made." STRATEGIC decisions are the cause of this mess.
We know who decided to go into Iraq with a smaller U.S. force than many of the generals had asked for. That was Donald, I'll send as many troops as the generals tell me, Rumsfeld (liar, liar, liar). Was he also the one who decided to disband the Iraqi army?
Americans deserve to know the answer to that question.
The only possible result of disbanding the Iraqi army, for any thinking person to imagine, was a bunch of disgruntled, armed, and dangerous men who would end up taking up arms and attacking the occupiers and each other (look at all the militias that have formed). What other possible outcome could anyone have expected? That being the case, the next question that comes to mind is: Did the person who made that decision do so KNOWING that it would cause a civil war?
Is it too frightening to speculate that someone in Washington DC wanted Iraq to remain unstable and fall into chaos?
Let's just demand an answer to the first question for now, though. Who decided to disband the Iraqi army? OK - White House press corps..... that's your question of the day. Rummy????
KEYWORDS: Iraq, Rumsfeld, War, Insurgency
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