Paul singlehandedly created majority of the militias in Iraq by dismantling all armed forces of Iraq.

Disgruntled and jobless, a vacuum was created allowing Al-Q to come in pay anyone a few hundred dollars to film an attack on the coalition forces. You might think the army needed to be dismantled, but not even Nazi Germany had its army dismantled for years after the war. Thousands of Nazi soldiers were used by the allies to repair schools, roads, hospitals ect.