The Bush administration's planning for post-Saddam Iraq didn't include any possibility of a drawn-out insurgency or sectarian civil war.
It seems that they actually believed that "we will in fact be greeted as liberators".
Post-Saddam Iraq: The War Game
George W. Bush invaded Iraq over lies, ignored long-standing realities in a region of the world that he knew absolutely nothing about, and his puppeteers in his cabinet completely underestimated the determination of the jihad that the CIA created.
The Record on CURVEBALL
Afghanistan: Lessons from the Last War
Afghanistan: Lessons from the Last War
It seems that they actually believed that "we will in fact be greeted as liberators".
Post-Saddam Iraq: The War Game
George W. Bush invaded Iraq over lies, ignored long-standing realities in a region of the world that he knew absolutely nothing about, and his puppeteers in his cabinet completely underestimated the determination of the jihad that the CIA created.
The Record on CURVEBALL
Afghanistan: Lessons from the Last War
Afghanistan: Lessons from the Last War