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To: Joe NYC who wrote (204277)	9/28/2004 8:06:53 PM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 1573088

re: Who made the plans, where are these plans, what were their assumptions? I can't tell you the details, they are "remembered from many articles. Here is part of an artilce from today: In Iraq, the U.S.-led occupation was criticized for quickly demobilizing the Iraqi army, putting thousands of armed, jobless men on the street; the early failure to stop looting and the Pentagon's limited use of the State Department's "Future of Iraq" planning groups that studied everything from the Iraq's oil industry to its economy and judiciary. "If you demobilize and disarm ... combatants and you stick them out ... in a society that is just coming through ethnic tension and strife and you make them unemployed, you have taken the first step in creating the insurgency," Carlos Pascual, who will lead the new office, said in general. Bush and Rummy "brushed" off the State Dept recs. story.news.yahoo.com John