04 June 2006

retired US Army General understatement of the day

"The U.S.'s preparedness to take over the country of Iraq, to try to stand it back up basically from scratch, we were not prepared for that level of effort at the beginning," Blount told the Associated Press in a phone interview from his home in Hattiesburg, Miss. "And in some way it probably contributed to the development of the insurgency."

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