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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (748887)	9/9/2006 11:29:03 AM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Why was there a need for a post-war plan? We were going to be received as liberators in Rummy's mind. This would be a cake-walk. Wolfiwitz promised the oil revenue would pay us back for our expedition in short order. Rummy drank the kool-aid like cheney and Mr. Bush. Forget the historians and middle-east scholors who were screaming about the pent-up hostilities between shia and sunnis. Forget the Kurds. Who needs plans? Of course, had there been a plan to truly take control, restore infrastructure quickly, and get the economy moving....perhaps some of the problems could have been mitigated. But we didn't have native language speakers, we didn't have enough soldiers...we didn't have enough of anything to secure the place..... But to this day Rumsfeld acts like (to quote a favorite phrase of this administration) Noone could have seen these problems. Come on.....