One of the BIGGEST mistakes made during the invasion of Iraq was to go in without enough troops to secure the borders. With the White House touting new evidence that the deadliest weapons killing our troops are coming from Iran, why are we continuing this stupidity - and why haven't the Democrats made this a central theme in their arguments against Bush's surge?

As U.S. troops drove across Iraq during the invasion, commanders on the ground fretted that they were leaving abandoned Iraqi military compounds unguarded, with the potential of massive looting putting arms in the hands of future insurgents.

Donald Rumsfeld ordered the generals to keep moving, and leave the bases to be looted.

Others complained that by dismantling the entire Iraqi army, we were leaving Iraq's borders unguarded, allowing insurgents and arms to flow freely across Iraq's borders.

Paul Bremer didn't listen.