CRAWFORD VACATION v IRAQI OCCUPATION ... which did Bush

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... which did Bush do a better job of planning for?

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Iraq news leaves White House on defense
By Andrea Mitchell
MSNBC - 1 hour ago

But the administration is also on the defensive because of newly-declassified State Department memos written a month before the war, warning of “serious planning gaps for post-conflict public security and humanitarian assistance.”

According to the memo, the concerns were elevated: “We have raised these issues with top CENTCOM officials and General Garner."

“The Pentagon and the White House didn’t want to hear anything of it,” says David Phillips, who was on the State Department team warning of post-war conflict. “All they wanted to do was to accelerate their march to war.”

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9001243

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1. Moron Mehlman said that we are killing terrorists in Iraq. How gosh.

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2. Ken Mehlman

Isn't he the son of Larry Bud Mehlman?

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3. Like father, like son: Bushes insist on their vacations

By MAUREEN DOWD

How could President Bush be cavorting around on a long vacation with American troops struggling with a spiraling crisis in Iraq?

Wasn't he worried that his vacation activities might send a frivolous signal at a time when he had put so many young Americans in harm's way?

"I'm determined that life goes on," Bush said stubbornly.

The president's pedaling as fast as he can, but he's going nowhere.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/editorial/outlook/3316862