Remember right after the initial invasion? When the national museum was looted? That happened because our military didn't do anything to secure the situation: didn't protect infrastructure or national treasures, didn't make sure it was safe for ordinary people to go out, didn't secure the supply chains of essential things like water and power and food imports.

Our high-ranking military officers knew all that needed to be done. They had a plan for it. Rumsfeld overruled them. He didn't think it was necessary to protect anything but the oil wells.

That's what I heard from a friend who worked in the Navy, and who got to listen to high-ranking officers in their off time.