A Recipe For Disaster - Iraq - CBS

Weekly commentary by Chief Washington Correspondent Bob Schieffer.

When I saw those pictures in the Iraq prison, I kept asking myself what could have been going through the guards' minds? But the more I think about it, the more I wonder, what was going through the minds of the people who sent them there?

The way these prisons were being run violated every tenet of military doctrine: no chain of command, no clear understanding of who was in charge, what the rules were or even what the mission was. That is a recipe for disaster. Is it one more bad result from sending a force to Iraq that was too small to maintain order once it got there?

Whatever it was, no professional military officer should have signed off on it. Did the military give bad advice on this or go along with a bad plan because officers feared retribution?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/17/opinion/schieffer/main617823.shtml

Hey Bob! Your questions are answered in the latest issue of Newsweek ... try to get a frikkin clue, you Imus appearing, Bush apologist ...

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4989438/