Intelligence analyst describes problems with war planning

[DoYouEverWonder]

May 20, 2005

WASHINGTON - Planning for the Iraq war was hobbled by tensions between Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and military planners over the staying power of Saddam Hussein's regime, by leaks of highly classified war plans and by little attention to the war's aftermath, according to a new insider account.

A top intelligence analyst at the U.S. military's Central Command writes that near-constant demands from Rumsfeld and his aides for new versions of the war plan using fewer American troops wasted time and diverted attention from fleshing out a blueprint for the March 2003 invasion.

Civilians in Washington, convinced that Saddam's regime would topple easily, "injected numerous ideas into the dialogue, many of which were amateurish and unrealistic," wrote the analyst, Gregory Hooker.

Many of those ideas were discarded, but the conflicting approaches never were resolved before the invasion, he says.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/krwashbureau/20050520/ts_krwashbureau/_bc_usiraq_planning_wa

[nashville_brook]

1. once again, Rumsfeld's PNAC fantasy undermines the real war

you really have to wonder -- it's getting more like Dr. Stangelove everyday. it's bad enough to be an evil mastermind -- but do they have to suck at it too?

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. 1. Bomb them. 2. Take the oil. 3. Who cares, we've got the oil.

It's easy. I could do foreign policy for BuchCo. But I've got a conscience (not a survival trait, evidently).

[killbotfactory]

3. Neocon fantasies undermine us again

Fucking morons.

[IChing]

4. You can slide furthur on bullshit, than you can on concrete.

"Many of those ideas were discarded, but the conflicting approaches never were resolved before the invasion, he says."

[swag]

5. Rated

It's got only one star right now.

Pricks thought the military should be run like a dot.con

[roseBudd]

6. rated it a 5 eom