http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1520&ncid=1520&e=2&u=/afp/20041027/pl_afp/us_iraq_planning_041027084229Rumsfeld hammers in another nail- sort of. In these last frenetic days of the campaign this probably won't get much attention, but it's just more validation from the horse's mouth that their pre-war planning SUCKED.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has implicitly admitted the Pentagon had no specific plans for handling a widespread insurgency in the aftermath of the US-led invasion of Iraq, but still insisted US pre-war planning was "good." <snip>
The remarks, made on Tueday in an interview with Cincinnati, Ohio, radio station, came amid a barrage of charges from Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) and his aides that the White House had failed to adequately plan for the possibility of a guerrilla war in Iraq. "The postwar plan ... was designed to see that they were not able to destroy their oil wells, that they were not able to blow up their bridges, that they did not have massive humanitarian crisis with internally displaced people and refugees and food crisis, and that the war was conducted in a speedy way so that it would not run the risk of destabilizing neighboring countries," Rumsfeld said when asked to comment on the accusations.
He said all those goals had been accomplished, but he did not mention guerrilla operations among the contingencies the military had planned for, and referred to them as a problem that was being handled on an ad hoc basis.