Wednesday, May 19, 2004
Wolfie: Oops, My Bad...
Washington Post: U.S. Faces Growing Fears of Failure0 comments
Under tough questioning from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz, a leading administration advocate of the Iraq intervention, acknowledged miscalculating that Iraqis would tolerate a long occupation. A central flaw in planning, he added, was the premise that U.S. forces would be creating a peace, not fighting a war, after the ouster of Saddam Hussein.
"We had a plan that anticipated, I think, that we could proceed with an occupation regime for much longer than it turned out the Iraqis would have patience for. We had a plan that assumed we'd have basically more stable security conditions than we've encountered," Wolfowitz told the senators.
They said the Titanic was "unsinkable," too.
I think we can safely ascribe this entire catastrophe to "pilot error."
In the coming weeks, pay particular attention to the run for the lifeboats, as members of the military, the intelligence community, the administration and, lastly, the whole "corps de Republican" in Congress start fighting for the few remaining seats in the boats.
posted by Gotham 9:37 AM
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