The 'Lack of Postwar Plan' angle...

[sabra]

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http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/06/13/british_memo_faulted_us_postwar_plan/

British memo faulted US postwar plan
Report to Blair concluded 'little thought' given
By Walter Pincus, Washington Post | June 13, 2005

WASHINGTON -- A briefing paper prepared for Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain and his top advisers eight months before the US-led invasion of Iraq concluded that the US military was not preparing adequately for what the memo predicted would be a ''protracted and costly" postwar occupation.

The eight-page memo 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 US counterparts the potential for the postinvasion instability that continues to plague Iraq.

In its introduction, the memo, ''Iraq: Conditions for Military Action," says US ''military planning for action against Iraq is proceeding apace," but adds that ''little thought" has been given to ''the aftermath and how to shape it."

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Downing Street Memo/Minutes has finally hit the MSM as the reports can be found through out various news services. However the concentration on DSM is not the 'fixing intelligence' part, rather the lack of a plan angle. While this is discouraging, and not too surprising that the AP would go with this approach, I believe there are still some positive aspects to it.

- Downing Street is getting covered, and people outside of the blogs are more aware (to a degree)

- fixed or not fixed, the every day person will be pissed to hear that their loved ones were being sent to a war with no plan.

- domino effect, you hit one angle and it will bring to another, and another....

[TahitiNut]

1. Such a focus establishes credbility of the memoranda and reports.

As that credibility is established, the focus can shift to the deliberate fraud -- which is, in my opinion, clear beyond a reasonable doubt.

[mopaul]

2. the post war plan you see is the post war plan you get suckers

bushco didn't have to write the plan down on paper, permanent occupation is the plan.