would have to contribute even tens of billions of dollars." he said, "those who argue that the united states would inevitably become the target of unhappy iraqis generally also assume that the iraqi population would be hostile to u.s. forces from the outset. however, the best evidence we have suggests that the iraqi people would be pleased to be liberated." he was basically the captain of team wrong in 2002, ken pollack. but incredibly, today, "the new york times" goes back to him as an iraq expert, specifically to get his views on why it's so awful that the obama administration is not putting the u.s. military back into iraq again. these pictures were taken the day before yesterday in mosul, showing some of the aftermath of the sunni militants taking over that city. you see on the ground there, on the median there, that's -- that's clothing. those are iraqi army uniforms that were stripped off by members of the iraqi military. they stripped their uniforms off, left them on the street, and fled. when the u.s. invaded iraq 11 years ago, the u.s. government