As most of you know, the guy we first put in charge of Iraq, a State Department veteran (read: flack) named L Paul Bremer, disbanded the Iraqi army soon after we took control of the country.  Since the

Now it turns out that not only did we do this basically without really thinking about it, our President either didn't really know WTF was going on, or he was too spineless to do anything about the bad decision.

HuffPo blog on Bush's completely idiotic mishandling of the disbanding of the Iraqi army

I love the part that says  "since Bremer made the decision, only he could change it."

Right, which is why the President is just the symbolic head of his administration, not the ACTUAL head.

And so we now have:

Reason #2 to Leave Iraq:  We disbanded the Iraqi military, and after 4 years, they still don't have an Army back.

(Of course, some people might say that this is a reason to say in Iraq... but what this really leads to is:)


Reason #3 to Leave Iraq:  The Bush Administration has made so many mistakes, we can't make up for them by staying.

Tags: 101 reasons to leave iraq, bureaucracy, disbanding iraqi army, huffpo, ineptitude, iraq, l paul bremer
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OK, so I'm sick and don't feel up to much besides sitting at the computer or watching TV, and Noah's gone to sleep here in the living room, so the TV is out.

With nothing better to do, I decided to surf the Intertubes and see what I could find, and of course I run across this lovely little tidbit...

NPR Report that the Iraqi government's corruption watchdog is completely ineffecive

Now, while this is hardly surporising, what I think is shocking is that a) the Embassy staff claim this is a "normal" report (not just that it comes out every six months, but it also is the same thing they've reported before, and b) anyone thinks this is ever going to change.


And so we get:

Reason #1 to Leave Iraq:  The Iraqi Government is completely corrupt.

Gee, I wonder how long it will take to get to 101 of these...?

Tags: 101 reasons to leave iraq, committee on public integrity, corruption, iraq
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