general, lieutenant general scott wallace, commander of v corps as he's marching up country towards baghdad as the supply lines are being attacked by guerrillas, and he makes a comment to the press that this is not the enemy we war gamed against. and for his candidness, he was nearly relieved of command. and this is sort of part ask parcel -- part and parcel with how the secretary of defense and the administration dealt with things that went against their preconceived notions, they simply stuck their head in the sand and said it's not happening. so when there was evidence that an insurgency was developing -- well, it wasn't an insurgency, it was merely dead enders, the last rem plants of the saddam -- remnants of the saddam hussein administration, and once we got rid of them, everything was okay. as late as november 2003, president bush in a meeting of the national security council said don't tell me that there's an insurgency in iraq, i'm not there yet. and this in the midst of the first insurgent ramadan offensive which my brigade and others if iraq were busy combating. in addition to the