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British memo found U.S. unprepared for postwar Iraq

http://www.sltrib.com/nationworld/ci_2797640

(Salt Lake Tribune)

"WASHINGTON - A briefing paper prepared for British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his top advisers eight months before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq concluded that the U.S. military was not preparing adequately for what the British memo predicted would be a ''protracted and costly'' postwar occupation of that country.
The eight-page memo, written in advance of a July 23, 2002, Downing Street meeting on Iraq, provides new insights into how senior British officials saw a Bush administration decision to go to war as inevitable, and realized more clearly than their American counterparts the potential for the post-invasion instability that continues to plague Iraq.
In its introduction, the memo ''Iraq: Conditions for Military Action'' notes that U.S. ''military planning for action against Iraq is proceeding apace,'' but adds that ''little thought'' has been given to, among other things, ''the aftermath and how to shape it.''"

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