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To: American Spirit who wrote (13196)4/7/2004 9:08:01 PM
From: CalculatedRiskRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 81568
 
Actually the planning for post-war Iraq was extensive, and unbelievably, the planning was ignored. The following article (long and detailed) should be read by every American. Our troops have been betrayed ...

Blind Into Baghdad
The Atlantic Monthly | January/February 2004
by James Fallows

theatlantic.com

"The U.S. occupation of Iraq is a debacle not because the government did no planning but because a vast amount of expert planning was willfully ignored by the people in charge. The inside story of a historic failure."