FRONTLINE "The Lost Year in Iraq" at pbs.org/frontline

[jabom99]

good documentary. explains the mindblowing clusterfuck that is iraq.

[nyomythus]

...had the old military class been preserved and utilized to "stabilize" Iraq. The headlines would have read: "Baathist War Criminal Gets Second Career as American Employee"; "Once-Wanted Man, Brigadier Kamal Now Shares Jokes With 82nd Airborne"; "Kurds and Shiites Say: What Regime Change?"; "From Basra to Kirkuk, America Brings Saddamism Without Saddam."

[breezeman199]

That still would have been better then the alternative path that was actually chosen.

[Sueezedtight]

When you put the lunatics in charge of the asylum, what do you expect?