Key advisor Paul Wolfowitz’s immediate reaction to 9/11 was war on Iraq. Anarchy in that land was all but assured when the Iraqi army was disbanded against the urgent advice of Gen. Jay Garner, the American administrator, who was replaced by the neocon favorite Paul Bremer. That meant that a huge number of competent military men, most of them no lovers of Saddam, were rendered unemployed—and still armed. How was this disastrous decision arrived at? People directly involved said it came as an order from administration officials who had never been to Iraq.
