US failed to plan for post-war Iraq-report

Reuters, Wed Jul 27, 2005 1:47 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An independent assessment of the tumult in Iraq led by two top former presidential advisers found the Bush administration had been unprepared for post-war Iraq and had underestimated the number of troops needed in a miscalculation that helped fuel the insurgency.
The report by a Council on Foreign Relations task force, released on Wednesday, concluded that the failure to prepare properly for the period after the war had given "early impetus for the insurgency" now gripping the country.
The task force was headed by two former national security advisers, Democrat Samuel "Sandy" Berger and Republican Brent Scowcroft, and presented a bipartisan critique of the Bush approach.

NOTE: A link to the report, "In the Wake of War: Improving U.S. Post-Conflict Capabilities" by Brent Scowcroft, Samuel R. Berger, & William L. Nash, Council on Foreign Relations, July 27, 2005 (pdf).