U.S. Scrambles to Rebuild Iraqi Army (washingtonpost.com): "[The decision to disband the Iraqi army] came with formidable force and decisiveness, as the president's policy. Nobody was supposed to challenge it and that was that,' said one U.S. official in Baghdad at the time. Another said: 'There was never a discussion that I was involved in where we would disband the military. It caught me completely by surprise.' "
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