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

To: pompsander who wrote (748889)	9/9/2006 11:44:15 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	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?" There is such a thing as 'planning for all contingencies'. That what the Professionals do. "But to this day Rumsfeld acts like (to quote a favorite phrase of this administration) Noone could have seen these problems." LOT'S of people foresaw these problems. The first President Bush. Scowcroft. Powell. (And the bulk of the combined D.I.A./C.I.A./State Department working group on Iraq... who labored away for three years in preparation --- only to have their plans for Iraq tossed out a few months before the invasion, in favor of some back-of-the-envelope type 'plan' from Feith's neo-con bunch.) We also saw an excellent military 'regent' for Iraq SACKED about a month into the job, replaced with that flack Bremmer, when he wouldn't drink the neo-con cool aid.