It was just a game

[Tribesman]

It was just a game , a bit of guesswork , it wasn't really a plan .
But it seems like it was forgotten when they wanted to play silly buggers for real .
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/....htm#documents

[KukriKhan]

and Tribesman provides a link.

[Papewaio]

The planning done at the Defense Department changed Zinni's original conception in some fundamental ways. For example, Zinni proposed a civilian occupation authority with offices in all eighteen Iraqi provinces, whereas the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) was actually established only in Baghdad.

Wouldn't eighteen provinces allow a more controlled method and allow for ethnic differencs.

Add another 200,000 troops to concentrate on the worst third of the provinces and you could lock them down tight.

[IRONxMortlock]

Wouldn't eighteen provinces allow a more controlled method and allow for ethnic differencs.

Yes but then you would have to find hundreds more people who agree with radical neo-conservative ideals to staff them. As they couldn't find many qualified folks who thought this way for the CPA they would have had to start recruiting from The Free Republic.

[Papewaio]

I thought the issue was finding enough positions for all those sponsers... 3 birds with one stone.

Positions get filled by those following the agenda of the US government.
Sponsors are made happy in getting a position.
Darwin takes over, and you will be left with the smart ones who probably could deal with a hurricane and get rebuilt within a year.