Not to beat a dead elephant...

…but I hope everyone is familiar with this most recent insanity. Even the staunchest blowhard now agrees that war planning was delusional. But “delusional”—along with “completely unrealistic” and other such august terms—is the official assessment of the National Security Archive, an independent research institute at George Washington University, regarding prewar planning.

 

Declassified documents released by the NSA show that retired General Tommy Franks—chief strategist for the Iraq war—and other officials predicted that by December of 2006 “the US military projected a stable, pro-US and democratic Iraq” which, by that time, would only require 5000 troops on the ground. Further, they predicted the “stabilization phase” would only be two to three months, “followed by an 18- to 24-month ‘recovery’ stage.”

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6364507.stm

 

Yikes.

 

-W.