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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: epicure who wrote (27521)8/30/2006 8:14:06 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 542009
 
The initial plan for post invasion occupation may have been a few power point slides. But even if you look at just that its quite a stretch to call it the worst plan in history. Some attacks or occupations where even less planned than that. As recently as the Israeli conquest of Gaza there wasn't much of a plan for what to do with it. Other wars or attacks started with essentially no planning, or even by mistake.

If you make that highly specific it moves out of tin foil hat territory to merely being a rather extreme and inaccurate statement. If the statement was further clarified to not just define the war (for the purposes of the statement) to refer only to the occupation/counter-insurgency, but also to limit the context of the statement to American history, than it might actually rise to debatable, rather than unreasonable. But without such clarifications or limits "there was never a war more poorly planned" even if the war in question is just the occupation is not just false, but obviously false.
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