Dan Senor and Roman Martinez, who served in Iraq with the Department of Defense and the Coalition Provisional Authority, take to the pages of the Washington Post to correct Donald Rumsfeld. “According to Donald Rumsfeld’s memoir, U.S. difficulties stemmed not from the Pentagon’s failure to plan for the war’s aftermath – or Rumsfeld’s unwillingness as defense secretary to provide enough troops to secure Iraqis after the collapse of Saddam Hussein’s regime,” Senor and Martinez write. “Rumsfeld pins most of the blame on the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) for its alleged mishandling of Iraq’s political transition in 2003-04, which ‘stoked nationalist resentments’ and “fanned the embers of what would become the Iraqi insurgency.'”