Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.

So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind.

While people out there on the spot certainly have to be held accountable for what they've done personally, the chain of command responsibility for this strikes me as just as important and should be dealt with.

The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics.

Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously.