Name me one military or political person who predicted the Iraq insurrency?

Question

I've been going back from 2003 and looking for one military person or polical person who warned about insurrgents being a factor we need to address. NOT ONE! All i am getting is Liberals, Republicans, and Democrats secong guessing what we should have done. I really need a report or piece of media who warned the administration to plan for insurrgents coming in from other countries.

Answer 1

lol@that senate report by mel t's No where does it claim Syria and Iran would be funding and fueling the insurgency. Reading the Dec. 2002 by Biden and hagel, actually has it wrong in their prediction of the Northern Iraq, thats had No trouble at all! They actually claim it's more likely a decade after Saddam! there is not one word, sentence or paragraph in that report that clearly states they warned of insurgency coming in from Syria, Iran, or the mention of Al qedea So again you are not getting an answer to your question!! Because in reality No One predicted what we've faced. If so they'd be the media prince or princess for the past 4 years!

Answer 2

Generals:
Gen. Eric Shinseki
Lt. Gen. Eric Newbold
General Wesley Clark
and others

Politicians:
Al Gore
Barack Obama
Dennis Kucinich
Russ Feingold
and many, many others.

Writers:
Paul Krugman
and many many others.

Your question is a red herring though. The real answer is that preemptive war is immoral. Iraq posed no threat to this country and had been effectively contained. That Iraq had WMD, the al-qaeda connection, and that we would be greeted with flowers and candies was nothing but bald faced lies by the Bush/Cheney administration, the neocons who supported it, and the media who failed in its journalistic duty to not fall prey to their propaganda. It's no wonder that this country is now fighting back against the occupation, as we never should have been there in the first place. Polls show that the military wants to leave the country and the public wants to leave the country.

Answer 3

I've racked my brain on that one too. Fact is NO ONE is the correct answer. I do see one idiot who claims commen sense, would have told you to look for such plan. But use Nazi and France as an example. What the moron doesn't understand, is Nazi'z and French were identifiable with a uniform; Insurrgents are not! Then we have Miss Bimbo claiming a professor made this prediction, LMAO that was funny. Miss Dimwit didn't read your question. Political or Military person? Notice she didn't mention the professor by name so we could actually look up his claim!

Answer 4

Actually, the insurgency was predicted.

What was NOT predicted is the brutality or enormity of it. Nobody expected the Saddamite insurgents to target innocent fellow Iraqi Muslims and murder them in such numbers.

Why? you ask? Because there really is little or no precedence for it. Sure, the terrorist Marxist in Peru used to do it, but on such a significantly smaller scale that it isn't comparable. Same with Northern Ireland during the worst of the sectarian violence - nothing of the scale that we see in Iraq.

Answer 5

Yes, he was politician and as well as a military person, who predicted the present Iraq insurgency and even warned Mr. Bush with the present situation and other consequences and he was none other than Late Saddam Hussain.

Answer 6

George Bush Sr., Colin Powell. People who knew what Iraq would turn into back in 1991

Answer 7

What needed to be done was what Bush did, what needs to be done now is a lot of butt kicking of the
iraqies themselves, do they honestly want peace
or are they going to behave like this and kill one
another for the rest of their lives, which will not be
long if they do not stop killing one another..............

No, if it was me I would have flattened them...they
have no right to kill innocent people, fight amongst
themselves behave like a group of criminals, kill
and maim and kidnap and torture international forces....they need to stop messing about get out
there and find a peaceful solution.....Stop blaming
the USA......this is just an excuse so that they can
kill one another....No, jokes they need to stop
killing one another....

Insurgencies kill, they are killing in the name of a
religion which has no basis in fact............................
a religion built on excuses and lies and evil.............

How many lives are they going to take in the name
of a religion, I would ban all religions outright there,
and deal with them more harshly than has been
done...They are clearly not listening.......................

Answer 8

Any such report would have been well hidden by now, plus it is common sense when a foreign nation invades a sovereign country there will be an insurgency....it's not like we were liberating the French from Nazi occupation.

Answer 9

Well I'm assuming you want someone well known, but I know for a fact a professor at my university predicted it, down to the year. He is a war veteran if that counts.

Answer 10

Here's a Washington Post column by Senators Hagel and Biden dated 2002, based on expert testimony given to the foreign relations committee.

http://biden.senate.gov/newsroom/details.cfm?id=189649&&