The moment America should have known the entire Iraq invasion would be a horrible failure.

 

The News Hour on PBS used to have this round table of colonels that they'd convene in the first weeks of the invasion.  These guys were spot on and just three days into the invasion they call out what many people had suspected; the rosey scenarios favored by the Pentagon civilian leadership were not reality based assessments. This is a small excerpt from March 23,2003.