KR Washington Bureau 05/04/2005 Lessons from Iraq: Rand offers War 101 textbook

The above links to a Rand report that condemns just about every aspect of our Iraq intervention, putting the blame to top leadership. While one may say that this is written in hindsight, I seem to remember many people making many of these same points before we moved our troops over the border from Kuwait.
My impression of a Republican administration is exactly this - making real plans based upon a rigid ideology without caring to examine the real situation on the ground. In other words, leading as a god rather than as one of the people.