Oh, wait… we don’t have one of those.
Lots of folks have quoted at length from this Knight Ridder article on Iraq, but that’s no reason why we shouldn’t join the chorus, now is it?
The first three grafs say it all:
WASHINGTON - In March 2003, days before the start of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, American war planners and intelligence officials met at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina to review the Bush administration’s plans to oust Saddam Hussein and implant democracy in Iraq.
Near the end of his presentation, an Army lieutenant colonel who was giving a briefing showed a slide describing the Pentagon’s plans for rebuilding Iraq after the war, known in the planners’ parlance as Phase 4-C. He was uncomfortable with his material - and for good reason.
The slide said: “To Be Provided.”
Who was it that just wrote that Rumsfeld, Bush, et. al. are guilty of “criminal negligence” in failing to prepare for postwar Iraq? Hitchens? Sullivan? Someone like that. If this incomptetent turd is rewarded with re-election, it will be a setback for behavioral scientists everywhere.
But hey, as they say, why change horsemen mid-apocalypse?
Now Playing: Episode 356
The Republican Convention, Fannie and Freddie go bust, and finally, our international news roundup.
Links Mentioned: Europeans try to placate the Russians … details on the bail-out … a brief history of Fannie and Freddie … Mark Schmitt on Obama’s high-risk, high-reward strategy … Biden tears it up on the trail.
