They could even go in later, let's say in autumn, but much better prepared for all the eventualities, which actually kicked in.
The army wouldn't have been in much of state after sitting through Kuwait's 50 degree summer in tents, and who knows what the political climate would have been?
As for saying that they would have been much better prepared for the eventualities that kicked in, that assumes that the report spoke of eventualities that DID kick in, and that's a very big assumption. Remember, during the prewar period, all the "experts" were warning us of the humanitarian catastrophe, the millions of refugees (remember the UN's tent cities in Jordan that went unused?), etc, etc. It's unclear to me that State's report would have been any use, and even if it had, it is natural to any politician not to trust implementation of his policy to anyone who has been fighting tooth and nail to oppose and undermine that policy. |
