The White House "takes exception" to the report today on Postwar

[Roxy66]

Well, Well, Well......so sorry. The truth will come back and bite ya in the arse!!!!!!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050613/ap_on_go_pr_wh/white_house_iraq;_ylt=Ai.H72s7yOmoCtwPeyXpauWs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2MTQ3MTFjBHNlYwN0cw--

WASHINGTON - The White House took exception Sunday to the reported characterization of a British memo questioning the adequacy of U.S. planning for a postwar occupation of Iraq.

"There was significant post war planning," said spokesman David Almacy. "More importantly, the memo in question was written eight months before the war began; there was significant post war planning in the time that elapsed."

He was reacting a report in Sunday editions of The Washington Post that a staff paper prepared for British Prime Minister Tony Blair before the invasion of Iraq concluded that "a post-war occupation of Iraq could lead to a protracted and costly nation-building exercise" that could result in the United States looking to Britain "to share a disproportionate share of the burden."

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[democrat in Tallahassee]

1. so that means war plans were on his desk?

[Roxy66]

5. I would say that is a CONFIRMATION!

[FreedomAngel82]

7. Dum dum dum

Looks like they just did a 180. First he wasn't even thinking about going to war before the UN ordeal and now he was? Which is it?! (Of course we all know)

[Roxy66]

2. Read on....

"Some things we prepared for did not happen, like large numbers of refugees needing humanitarian assistance, and others we did not expect, such as large numbers of regime elements fleeing the battlefield only to return later," said Almacy. "Anytime you go to war you have to be flexible to adapt to the unexpected. That is why we gave our commanders the flexibility to do so."
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What a joke!!! Were we not all saying these things would happen....to the tone of "Your un-American"!!

[IChing]

10. Lets continue the list

their list
1. "large number of refugees needing humanitarian assistance"
2. "large number of regime elements fleeing the battle field only to return later"

our list

3. safeguarding the high explosives weapons dumps
4. safeguarding the museums of 5,000 years of culture
5. safeguarding the 9 billion dollars that is now missing
6. plan on leaving iraq..... they already said they didn't have a" exit plan but a winning plan"
7. plan on supplying what our troops needed
8. plan on......... I'm getting tired typing.....

[TerdlowSmedley]

3. It's amazing how even those in cahoots with the evil asshats in

the White House persist in making up unflattering things about them. Why is that?

[tuvor]

4. "Significant: Having or expressing a meaning; meaningful."

So the word means what the speaker wants it to mean.

Whoo-eee, that bullshit is really pungent today!

[Goldeneye]

6. So they admit they were planning on going to Iraq way back then.

Now were getting somewhere.

"There was significant post war planning," said spokesman David Almacy. "More importantly, the memo in question was written eight months before the war began; there was significant post war planning in the time that elapsed."

[Aviation Pro]

8. Too bad they didn't implement their....

..."post war planning." Most of their "planning" consisted of taking interns from the various right-wing think tanks and giving them a task such as, oh, building an Iraqi stock market. Yeah, I want a 23-year old moron doing that.

[NorCalDem]

9. My favorite part...

"More importantly, the memo in question was written eight months before the war began; there was significant post war planning in the time that elapsed."

So, you were plannin to go there all along, weren't ya?

Here's my take on the Memo, it's a "smoking gun" absolutely, but I don't think it's worthy of impeachment outright, and here's why. The memo said they were "fixing intelligence" to make a cause for the war, and that's damnable but only if they knew that it was false intelligence. What we really need is some document showing some highup in the administration giving orders for the intelligence to be fixed. Bush and the gang are right about making plans not being that bad, you always make plans, they wanted to sell their idea to the UN so of course they were going to come up with estimates on troops and cost, strategic planning of sorts, I would expect them too, I don't want our guys flying in unprepared. BUT, if they couldn't get any proof, and the order came down to drag whatever they could from intelligence and satellite photos to make a "case" for the war, then they're war criminals (I know this is the how it actually went down, we just don't have enough proof yet, only motive).

That being said, if we have to impeach to obtain those documents, then I'm all for it! :D

Viva La revolution!