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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (138199)	6/28/2004 12:37:53 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) of 281500

I find the local WWII analogistics tiresome in general, but this other less favorable comparison came up recently: Ordinary American ignorance was compounded by the administration's arrogance. Gen. George C. Marshall began planning the postwar occupation of Germany two years before D-Day. This administration was fumbling for a plan two months before the invasion. Who can read Bob Woodward's ''Plan of Attack'' and not find his jaw dropping at the fact that from the very beginning, in late 2001, none of the civilian leadership, not Rice, not Powell, not Tenet, not the president, asked where the plan for the occupation phase was? Who can't feel that U.S. captains, majors and lieutenants were betrayed by the Beltway wars between State and Defense? Who can't feel rage that victorious armies stood by and watched for a month while Iraq was looted bare? [ from nytimes.com ] That particular sad tale is much more voluminously documented in theatlantic.com , of course, but nevermind. Hope is generally not considered a plan, except among the "'we know everything and everyone else is stupid' civilian team running the Pentagon" ((c) Friedman)

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