As horrible as what happened to those troops was, (and all of the other senseless deaths and injuries in Iraq), it has all been fairly predictable from the standpoint of invading that country w/o good reason or a good plan of what to do once we were there.
History is going to be absolutely brutal to the architects of this foreign policy and the (non) planners of this "war". It will turn out to be one of the stupidest moves and worst miscalculations ever made by
any country, and I include backwards African nations run by delusional popcorn pimp despots in that *any*.
I was 100% opposed to invading Iraq even if he had some WMDs, I mean what country in the world doesn't have a barrel or two of poison laying around and a missile or three? Apparently Iraq did not. We invaded the only country in the world w/ nothing but rifles and explosives, and they had lots of those.
I was also opposed to invading even if things were predicted to go well, which they were by administration mouthpieces. Hell, I figured that the USA w/ the best military in the world had all of the eventualities covered for invading and occupying a ME country that all of the shot-callers at the time had been wanting to and planning for invading for years. (Before 9/11/01 gave them the false pretense). But no, it very quickly became apparent that they had NO plan whatsoever when we lost control of the country within days of entering and that POS Rumsfeld declared that "freedom is messy", or some other such horseschit. Yeah, it sure is messy. And lawless. Three years after the invasion.
As much as the administration continues to try to polish the turd that is their foreign policy accomplishments, and claim that "liberals" do not have the backbone to support their failed policies, a memory sticks in my mind from the spring of '03 when war supporters were saying that we could not wait for the weapons inspectors to finish their work because if we delayed invading any longer, our troops would be there fighting in the oppressive summer heat. It had to be done in March. Anyone else remember this when the administration dead-enders on this board claim that all is going normally in Iraq??