Pentagon Prepares For Disaster In Iraq!

[cynatnite]

Feb. 8, 2007 | Deep within the bowels of the Pentagon, policy planners are conducting secret meetings to discuss what to do in the worst-case scenario in Iraq about a year from today if and when President Bush's escalation of more than 20,000 troops fails, a participant in those discussions told me. None of those who are taking part in these exercises, shielded from the public view and the immediate scrutiny of the White House, believes that the so-called surge will succeed. On the contrary, everyone thinks it will not only fail to achieve its aims but also accelerate instability by providing a glaring example of U.S. incapacity and incompetence.

The profoundly pessimistic thinking that permeates the senior military and the intelligence community, however, is forbidden in the sanitized atmosphere of mind-cure boosterism that surrounds Bush. "He's tried this two times -- it's failed twice," Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said on Jan. 24 about the "surge" tactic. "I asked him at the White House, 'Mr. President, why do you think this time it's going to work?' And he said, 'Because I told them it had to.'" She repeated his words: "'I told them that they had to.' That was the end of it. That's the way it is."

http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/02/08/gop_iraq/

[Zenlitened]

1. Too bad the dateline on that story wasn't, say, sometime in 2002.

Unreal. Every last idiot in the chain of comand who signed off on the ridicilous 2003 "plan without a plan" should be clapped in irons and thrown in a jail cell. Plenty of charges to choose from: up to and including treason, in the case of some of them.

:grr:

[hippiechick]

2. "If" the escalation fails ?

IF ??? :wow: :spank: