[Sir David Manning, the Prime Minister's foreign policy adviser] was critical of the lack of planning for post-war Iraq in the US, where responsibility passed from the State Department to the Pentagon. "I think the assumption that the Americans would have a coherent plan which would be implemented after the war was obviously proved to be unfounded."
The Brits are running a kind of Truth-&-Reconciliation Hearing to explore the pattern of incompetence, venality, predetermined intentions in search of a rationale, and "sexed-up" intelligence reports that led up to the first British occupation of Iraq since the previous one. No-one seems to be denouncing the inquiry as a partisan witch-hunt set up to criminalise policy differences. Don't let the Americans know.
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Sigh...
Powell Doctrine Item 5
F-in' Powell, he never should have trusted Whitey.
If you're intent on reverting to pre-9/11 thinking and bringing up things like the Powell Doctrine, then let's face it, the War of Bush's Ego scores 0 out of 10.
I'm just not interested in looking backwards, when I can instead concentrate on looking inside my underpants...
...hearing...rationale...intelligence...
sounds like "telephone" - though we mostly played it without venality and incompetence (but with alcohol)
Eeewwww.
Look what I just found.
Damn.
I'm thinking maybe looking backwards isn't so bad after all...
The fourth Malebolge in the Eighth Circle is reserved for that, mikey.
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