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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA
And my argument is that responding to those pressures is the display of incompetence. In other words, I don't believe they didn't know any better (which would have been incompetence via ignorance) but rather they lacked the will to overcome those pressures & bowed to them instead.
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+1 to this...I'd also add that the public outrage over the continuing deaths and general mayhem over there made it "easier" (in the Bush Admin's eyes) to justify adding troop levels, IMHO.
So, to put it differently...the Bush admin's failure (IMO) was a misjudging of US public will vs. the public outrage that would follow their inappropriate execution of post-war Iraq.