Well, I think that anyone who looks at it with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight has to say that there was not an anticipation that the level of insurgency would be anything approximating what it is.
Rumsfeld acknowledges the unexpected level of insurgency in Iraq.
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You go to war with the army you have, not the one you might want or wish to have.
Our goal is to defend the American people and to eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and to liberate the Iraqi people.
But, as Donald Rumsfeld, who, sadly, passed away today, said numerous times, the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
We went to war with the Army we had, not the Army we would have liked to have.
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