Apologies for my earlier bit of sarcasm, it was unnecessary.

I am very disturbed by the administrations failure to plan for the possibility of guerrilla conflict. It shows, in my mind, not a failure of intelligence, though there were plenty of those, but a failure of history. What I mean by that is that any student of resent military history could have told them that while the Iraqi army would stand a snowballs chance in Miami against US forces a guerrilla conflict would be different. Also any student of nationalism could tell them that few people appreciate outside interference in “their country”.