<Definitely puzzling.>
My guess is, the decision-makers thought our troops would be stumbling over hundreds of WMD (after being shelled with chemical weapons as they approached Baghdad), so the evidence for WMD would be obvious and overwhelming, and there would be no need to search for it.
Also, they thought the Iraqi police would stay on the job, take orders from our soldiers, and maintain order, so there was no need to assign our soldiers to guard anything.
They thought, once they pulled down that statue, they were done, and Operation Iraqi Freedom was finished.
That's the best guess I can come up with, for why they didn't guard the WMD documents, or the nuclear sites, or do any post-war planning. |
