because of poor planning and then in 2006 you had bombing al qaeda and iraq blew up the shrine north baghdadi and suddenly all hell broke loose in the war started in iraq is falling apart front office physically fit ph.d. general quote david petraeus arrived and saved the day of the new american hero and now he's going to save the day in afghanistan using the same brilliant tactics. but all that is wrong. the civil war in iraq didn't begin in 2006 with the bombings. it began in 2003 when the americans won the war they basically lost the war. they dispatched the iraqi army for the most part didn't even fight. and leaving aside the occupation or wrong decision to go to war with this rather wrong. if you're going to be an occupier, if you're going to invade a country at least give it confidently, and we couldn't even do that, so the military planners, colonels and the like knew from experience in haiti, bosnia, kosovo, conflict in the world you need a significant number of troops for the post war phase because you're not going to devastate. they weren't grads of the troop it's going to be a quic