"Panel: Bush Was Unready for Postwar Iraq"

[GreenPartyVoter]

WASHINGTON (AP) - An independent panel headed by two former U.S. national security advisers said Wednesday that chaos in Iraq was due in part to inadequate postwar planning.

Planning for reconstruction should match the serious planning that goes into making war, said the panel headed by Samuel Berger and Brent Scowcroft. Berger was national security adviser to Democratic President Clinton. Scowcroft held the same post under Republican Presidents Ford and George H.W. Bush but has been critical of the current president's Iraq and Mideast policies.

"A dramatic military victory has been overshadowed by chaos and bloodshed in the streets of Baghdad, difficulty in establishing security or providing essential services, and a deadly insurgency," the report said.

"The costs, human, military and economic, are high and continue to mount," said the report, which was sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, an independent foreign policy group.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20050727/D8BJOOF02.html

[in_cog_ni_to]

1. No kidding?

:eyes: They're just now figuring that out?

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Apparently *sigh*

[babylonsister]

3. DUH! Have these people not read the DSM? nt

[Swamp Rat]

4. Meanwhile, our brothers and sisters get their arms a legs blown off or

sent home in a coffin. :mad:

[jojo54]

5. Well, ya know that KKKarl and Rummy don't like the polls

right now, so they had to do something......

[grasswire]

6. when will it be realized that they WANTED chaos??

Chaos = money. More chaos = more money for them.

Chaos = military must stay. Insurgency = military must stay longer.

The ghouls of the BFEE are feasting off the human tragedy of the Iraqi people and our killed and maimed GIs.

There never was a more craven, cowardly, evil group in power in the history of the world.

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. It's the PNAC way

[wildwww2]

7. Why would anyone be stupid enough to think Bu$h was prepared for

anything? Did they not see how bad a pretzel kicked his freaking ass? He was a spoiled rich brat then and now. He just prepares to be spoiled some more. And his lap dog media continues to provide. I still hear more from the media about Clintons penis. Than I do about Bu$h's murderous war crime.
Peace
Wildman
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