Re:playing both sides against ourselves (Score 1)

The main reason so many of them have come back as insurgents is that they had no jobs. We fired them all when we could have kept all but the ones most loyal to Saddam, and gotten them on our side. Even more inflammatory was that we also told them that the pensions they had been paying into were gone.

I have read Clarke's book and heard him speak. The title of his book comes from the oath the President and many other government employees take "...to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic." [emphasis added]