Reply #4: The original plan was to "destroy government"

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The Bushevicks had their plan in hand to pull of a Friedman style libertarian transformation. Destroy government, allow the private sector to take over ... magic ... and then everything would be great. Instead everything turned to shit.

I was quite shocked when I heard an army officers story about garbage in Iraq. He was trying to get it removed. So he found the guys who did it under Saddam who asked for a paltry sum. He asked for the funds and got nothing but stalling in return. Then it was awarded to a US contractor at 10 times the cost.

These guys seemed to have exactly the right formula for really pissing people off who were generally grateful and receptive. What pisses me off today is that the Democratic congress seems to be spending very little time on Iraq war oversight. This is the Achilles heel of the Republican party, their colossal mismanagement of the Iraq fiasco.