Faith-Based War Planning

[baltodemvet]

Near the end of his presentation, an Army lieutenant colonel showed a slide describing the Pentagon's plans for rebuilding Iraq after the war. He was uncomfortable with his material -- and for good reason.

The slide said: "To Be Provided."

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"We didn't go in with a plan. We went in with a theory," said a veteran State Department officer who was directly involved in Iraq policy.

http://www.freep.com/news/nw/war16e_20041016.htm

1,101 Americans and Thousands of innocent Iraqi are dead.

:mad:

[riverwalker]

1. Rumsfeld

How can we hold him accountable? Seriously, this man should be in prison. What recourse do we as a nation have?

"Four senior officers who were directly involved said Rumsfeld and Franks micromanaged the complex process of deciding when and how the troops and their equipment would be sent to Iraq, called the Time-Phased Force and Deployment Data, canceling some units, rescheduling others and even moving equipment from one ship to another."
"Rumsfeld's office "was utterly, arrogantly, ignorantly and negligently unprepared" for the aftermath of the war, said Larry Diamond, who was a political adviser in Baghdad from January to March of this year."

[baltodemvet]

2. First, let's fire his boss.

Then lets take a look at the Rumsfeld legacy.