Rummy "screws up" post war planning.....says Kristol

[cthrumatrix]

Powell and Joint Chiefs Nudged Bush Toward U.N.

By Dana Milbank and Thomas E. Ricks
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, September 4, 2003; Page A01


"People close to the administration said the Joint Chiefs and Powell (a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs) did not win a bureaucratic battle as much as Rumsfeld lost one. "Rumsfeld lost credibility with the White House because he screwed up the postwar planning," said William Kristol, a conservative publisher with close ties to the administration. "For five months they let Rumsfeld have his way, and for five months Rumsfeld said everything's fine. He wanted to do the postwar with fewer troops than a lot of people advised, and it turned out to be a mistake."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20085-2003Sep3.html

It's nice to see them turn on each other....

[Capt_Nemo]

1. WOOHOO! PNACers at each other's throats!

I love it!

[virtualobserver]

2. when you combine this article with the fact that Thomas White is...

suddenly speaking out, It sounds like an orchestrated attempt to shift blame to Rumsfeld....but only beneath the surface.
Rumsfeld's "health concerns" will probably be the reason for his resignation and he will be honored by Bush for his superb service to his country.

[graham67]

9. Stick a fork in him....

Rumsfeld is done. He'll need to spend "more time with his family" real soon ;-)

[teryang]

3. It's wasn't bad "postwar planning," it is a bad war

It aint over till its over. It was wrong before it started, conceived for ill motives. It was and is still an illegal war. It was a perverted deviation from longstanding American and international foreign policy standards. Naturally, it's a failure.

Trying to save face, they limit their tepid critiques to "winning the peace" and "post war planning." Trying to salvage something from this unmitigated military and political diaster is merely an attempt to save the political hides of a corrupt and illegitimate group of usurpers. They care nothing for their own country or its soldiers. They are murderers, wasting lives and untold resources to enrich themselves and their corporate supporters.

[qanda]

4. You said exactly what I was thinking, but

I could not have said it any better.

[argonne]

5. Can't say it nearly as well--

well done!

If the Dems screw up this golden opportunity, I'll be nuts!

I hope The U.N. turns those miserable bastards away.

[indepat]

6. Teryang, you have mastered the art of waxing poetic, succinctly

hitting the nail on the head and hopefully in a few political coffins.

[HFishbine]

13. So many

mixed metaphores I need a road map. ;)

[sendero]

7. exactly...

... no amount of "post-war" planning would have made any difference. We don't belong there, we are not wanted there, and the blame-shifting is little more than amusing at this point.

[Snellius]

15. Bingo! Would it have gone better even if they had planned for it?

If they had planned for the postwar they would have needed at least twice as many troops. If they needed twice as many troops, they would have been stretched so thin they wouldn't have been able to start the war in the first place. After all, Bush was sure god was on his side. Why plan?

[Booberdawg]

8. I just love seeing that arrogant sombitch Rumsfilled get spanked n/t

[pansypoo53219]

10. no shit

that is always a bonus. take your star wars and go home Rumsfool.

[leesa]

11. Credibility with the White House??? That's a laugh!

[badgolfer]

12. Rumsfeld

Don't forget who advises Rumsfeld, the Defense Policy Board. One of the members is Newt Ginrich. No wonder the US screwed up in Iraq. He is also gunning to become the Secretary of State. God help us all if this happens.

[Zuni]

14. DUH

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this one out!

[kentuck]

16. Since Kristol told them how to get in...perhaps

he can tell them how to get out. This is no time for him to bail - as if he never had anything to do with it. PNAC? Remember?