Was going after Saddam with our military like going after one facet of a stained glass window with a shotgun?

Question

Or maybe it was like trying to remove one small facet with a jack-hammer.


When I see that over 2,000 Iraqi doctors and nurses have been deliberately targeted and murdered by insurgents whithin Iraq, I get the sinking feeling that we have destroyed the entire multi-faceted stained glass window with a jack-hammer in our attempt to remove one single facet from its center.

Over 18,000 doctors have fled Iraq as a result of the chaos and danger we have unleashed within that country.

How could this country have been so naive about our ability to exact positive overnight change in Iraq by military force and an indefinite occupation with what has turned out to be a skeleton crew in relation to the Iraqi population and land mass?

Tell me where and when this has ever worked before?!

Are there any war colleges that teach this as being possible?

Answer 1

A very good description. It didn't take a genius to foresee the chaos that would be unleashed by deposing Saddam and at the same time dismantling all the civil forces of law and order,destroying the electricity supplies, watersupplies and telecommunications networks so that American companies could get nice fat contracts for reconstruction paid for with Iraqi oil revenues.

Answer 2

I think it could have been handled differently without an all out invasion. Yeah, Saddam was wily....but he would have made a mistake at some point. We should've had a Iraqi formed hit team under very deep cover. I know that would have been very difficult in Saddam's Iraq(and a lot less costly than what's going on now), but there had to be some disgruntled Iraqi officers out there somewhere. They would have had to make damn sure the opeartion was successful though or it would be off with thier heads...

Answer 3

No, it's more like a bunch of retards trying to hump a door knob. It was the wrong people, doing the wrong thing, in the wrong place, at the wrong time!