Here's a blistering editorial to brighten you up, a history professor from Cornell who has a bone to pick with a Rum's eye view of American history.

At least Mr. Rumsfeld is not one of those "revisionist historians" his boss, President Bush, has derided. In fact, the basic interpretation of American history he advances is so ancient it creaks. The idea that America under the Articles of Confederation (from 1781 to 1788) was a time of strife and ineffectual government was first put forward in the 18th century by supporters of the Constitution. It was perpetuated by 19th-century historians who wanted to portray the delegates to the Constitutional Convention as disinterested saviors of the nation. Historians initially challenged this dismal view of the 1780's early in the 20th century, and it has essentially been dead for at least 50 years.

The United States won its war. Iraq lost. Iraqis must now create a new polity under the supervision of an occupying power. There was no British Paul Bremer sitting in Philadelphia and telling us what to do in the 1780's.

As part of his education package, President Bush has proposed an initiative to improve the teaching of American history in the public schools. I wonder if his secretary of defense might benefit from a refresher on the revolutionary era.

Who reads history anymore? Dudn't matter.

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George Bush, victim of decay

Bush opens up. From his "autobiography" A CHARGE TO KEEP:

During the more than half century of my life, we have seen an unprecedented decay in our American culture, a decay that has eroded the foundations of our collective values and moral standards of conduct. Our sense of personal responsibility has declined dramatically, just as the role and responsibility of the federal government have increased.

The changing culture blurred the sharp contrast between right and wrong and created a new standard of conduct: "If it feels good, do it." and "If you've got a problem, blame somebody else. Individuals are not responsible for their actions," the new culture has said. "We are all victims of forces beyond our control.” We have gone from a culture of sacrifice and saving to a culture obsessed with grabbing all the gusto. We went from accepting responsibility to assigning blame. (emphasis mine)

He was talking about the standard conservative "it was better back in the old days." Interestingly enough that was what conservatives were saying back in the old days. And so on and so on. I guess the Dark Ages must have been heaven on Earth.

However, he sounds to be talking about himself. When asked about his Harken insider trading deal, he excuses himself with "my account lost the paperwork." When asked about missing the answers of some questions on his jury questionnaire (which would, if answered, prove embarrassing), he excuses himself with "my aide filled it out for me." When asked about the State of Union Address "The CIA said it was okay."

The modern neo-con version of the Republican party is not the party of self-responsibility. When all the accounting scandals were happening, the CEOs were excused by the Republicans because they were the victims of the "anything goes" time of lies and excess of the Clinton era. Poor millionaires it must be hard to have no self-control and be at the mercy of that evil ol' Clinton. The funny thing is during that time crime was going down down down. Maybe non-CEOs have stronger will power.

Thanks to one of those sites listed on the right pointing out that line from his "autobiography."

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Another startling quote about the President from a prominent Republican:

Henry Hyde, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said: ''If the president calculatedly and repeatedly violates his oath, if the president breaks the covenant of trust he has made with the American people, he can no longer be trusted. And because the executive plays so large a role in representing the country to the world, America can no longer be trusted.''

Wow! Oh wait. Ooops. My bad. That's about Clinton too (just like that Dick Armey one). Sorry. Sorry.

Move on, or read a great editorial: GOP's double standard on presidential lies

AMERICAN SOLDIERS continue to die in Iraq, and the Republicans do not want us to know why. In a 51-45 vote, the Republican-led Senate this week rejected a proposal for an independent, bipartisan commission to investigate the claims Bush used to justify his invasion of Iraq. The senator who made the proposal, Democrat Jon Corzine of New Jersey, said, ''Each day, we have failed to have an accounting ... of what really happened.''

In the latest Pentagon count, 224 US soldiers have died in combat or accidents in the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Soldiers are dying at a rate of one a day 77 days after President Bush declared an end to major combat operations. The number of soldiers who died in noncombat accidents after the invasion has surpassed the number prior to it.

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DAVID LETTERMAN: Who's ultimately responsible for the words that come out of the President's mouth?

ARI FLEISCHER: It's a team approach

It's like Bush and Rove and Cheney and Rice and Rumsfeld are all of one mind. But Cheney is using it now and he's in an undisclosed location, which is really a problem this time because Bush is starting to drool.

(thanks to Media Whores Online for the quote from last night's Letterman)

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Hmmmm... what an interesting list. I wonder where this comes from... its dated 2001....

CHENEY ENERGY TASK FORCE DOCUMENTS FEATURE MAP OF IRAQI OILFIELDS

Oh.... This could become interesting.


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(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and abuse, said today that documents turned over by the Commerce Department, under court order as a result of Judicial Watch’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit concerning the activities of the Cheney Energy Task Force, contain a map of Iraqi oilfields, pipelines, refineries and terminals, as well as 2 charts detailing Iraqi oil and gas projects, and “Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield Contracts.” The documents, which are dated March 2001, are available on the Internet at: www.JudicialWatch.org.

The task force was just a bunch of friends making a Christmas list. "Hey Dick, I want that." "No Problem" says Dick.

And we laugh at corrupt airport security taking payoffs at customs in other nations, ha ha, in our nation you can buy the whole freakin' government.

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The CEO Presidency.

But we didn't get some Ford or even a Gates, we got a Ken Lay type CEO. We got the CEO that was given the job because his buddies on the board want to thank him for that nice golfing trip:

The numbers tell the tale. In its first budget, released in April 2001, the administration projected a budget surplus of $334 billion for this year. More tellingly, in its second budget, released in February 2002 — that is, after the administration knew about the recession and Sept. 11 — it projected a deficit of only $80 billion this year, and an almost balanced budget next year. Just six months ago, it was projecting deficits of about $300 billion this year and next.

The new numbers are $455 billion this year and $475 billion next year. If anyone below managment level made estimates that poorly they'd be out of a job.

More from Krugman's Passing It Along

Some point out that Ronald Reagan ran even bigger deficits as a share of G.D.P. But they hope people won't remember that in the face of those deficits, Mr. Reagan raised taxes, reversing part of his initial tax cut.

Furthermore, this time huge deficits have emerged just a few years before the baby boomers start retiring and placing huge demands on Social Security and Medicare. The Social Security system is running a surplus right now, in preparation for future demands; the rest of the federal government is paying one-third of its expenses with borrowed money. That's a record.

But haven't administration officials said they'll cut the deficit in half by 2008? Yeah, right. I could explain in detail why that claim is nonsense, but in any case, why bother with what these people say? Remember, just 18 months ago they said they'd more or less balance the budget by 2004. Unpoliticized projections show a budget deficit of at least $300 billion a year as far as the eye can see.

But by the time everyone realizes how bad the situation is, Bush will be working at the Carlyle Group stocking their bar for $1,750,000 a year (plus bonus).

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Missing Iraq 'mole': Body found

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Police have found a body matching that of UK official David Kelly, who denied being the "mole" in the Iraq weapons of mass destruction dossier row.


Oh cheeky cheeky
Oh naughty sneaky
You're so perceptive
And I wonder how you knew.

But dead finks don't walk too well (oh no)
A bad sense of direction (oh no)
And so they stumble round in threes (oh no)
Such a strange collection.

--Eno


(thanks P)

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Democrat Eyes Potential Grounds for Bush Impeachment

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bob Graham said on Thursday there were grounds to impeach President Bush (news - web sites) if he was found to have led America to war under false pretenses.
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"If in fact we went to war under false pretenses that is a very serious charge," Graham, the senior U.S. senator from Florida, told reporters in New Hampshire.

"If the standard of impeachment is the one the House Republicans used against Bill Clinton, this clearly comes within that standard," he said.

Still not enough to get Graham listed in our nationally coveted "Interesting Candidates" list, but pretty close. (thanks to P for the link).

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Jury Duty

I had jury duty yesterday. We were told that thanks to a 1927 law the daily fee had been raised from 3 to $5. I had an extra large lunch knowing that that $5 was coming. We were also shown a video explaining the justice system of America: specifically how it pertained to members of the jury. We were warned that it was slightly dated before we viewed it. I thought it was a pretty could overview of what we, as members of the jury, may expect without being too insulting of our intelligence. But as I was watching it I was wondering why she had said it was dated, and then I got it, at the very ending. “Our system of justice has been unchanged in over 200 years. It is you the jury that make our system of justice the best in the world, everyone, no matter the crime, can request a jury of peers to hear the facts of the case.” Ah, that’s it. The video was definitely pre-Aschcroft. Now you can be arrested without a Grand Jury indicting you, and you can be tried without a jury hearing you. So much for 200+ years of tradition. For more go to the ACLU site.

But I’m not going to just end this story with a complaint about Ashcroft, nope, I’ve definitely got an angle here about Bush, the old “revisionist historian” himself.

IN THE FALL OF 1996, George W. Bush, 21 months into his first term as governor, made a surprise decision: He would show up for Travis County jury duty. He made a very public appearance at the jury screening, telling reporters, "I'm just an average guy showing up for jury duty." When he arrived at the county courthouse a week later for jury selection for a trial, he schmoozed with his fellow prospective jurors outside the courtroom, asserting to reporters his belief that jury duty was everyone's responsibility.

But while Bush held forth in the corridor, a meeting was taking place inside the court that would make certain that the governor would never be impaneled. Back in the judge's chambers, Alberto R. "Al" Gonzales, the governor's quiet, dapper general counsel and one of his closest advisers, was making a forceful case that his client could not be a juror. Bush had the power to pardon defendants, Gonzales argued, and thus should not vote on their innocence or guilt at trial. (read more at Texas Monthly – requires free registration)

So the “average guy” is trying to get out of jury behind the scenes because he’s not “average,” he’s the governor. While this is sleazy, it isn’t atypical political behavior. But it didn’t end there, there was much more to this story:

Prosecutor says Bush “directly deceived” him to avoid jury duty

November 05, 2000 | AUSTIN, Texas -- Travis County's lead prosecutor on the 1996 drunken-driving case in which Gov. George W. Bush was called as a potential juror now believes he was purposely misled by Bush and his attorney in an effort to avoid service.
Ken Oden, a Democrat who has been the Travis County attorney for 16 years, charged Saturday that Bush's failure to answer some of the questions on his jury questionnaire, coupled with his lawyer's efforts to get Bush excused because he might someday be called on to pardon the offender, was part of an effort to deceive prosecutors and others.

Bush "used his position as governor" to avoid having to answer potentially embarrassing questions about his past, Oden told Salon. "I feel I was directly deceived."

The prosecutor, who handles civil cases as well as misdemeanor criminal cases for the county, said that Thursday's news that Bush pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence in Maine in 1976 caused him to reexamine the 1996 case.

"With all the new information that has come forward, it's logical to see that there may have been motives at work that none of us knew about. But at the time, we were just trying to be courteous to the governor," said Oden.

The government asks three things of its citizens: Pay Taxes (Harken pulled some Enron like deals to avoid taxes back when Bush was on the board. And Bush himself pulled a little accounting trick to lower his tax bill back then as well.), Register for the draft (well when there was a draft, Bush got out of that thanks to Daddy’s friends), and Jury Duty (well we can see how Bush dealt with that). Wow Bush is zero for three for citizen responsibilities. Forget about kicking him out of the White House, kick him out of the country! He’s nothing but a free loader! He's a gosh darn leach.

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Nice video: Founding Fathers

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Dick Armey talks about the President and the attack on Iraq:

"After months of lies, the president has given millions of people around the world reason to doubt that he has sent Americans into battle for the right reasons," Armey said. "The fact that Americans are expressing these doubts shows that the president is losing his ability to lead. If the president refuses to resign for the sake of the nation, I believe he should be impeached and face Senate trial."

Wow, strong stuff, and coming from a Republican no less, that really puts all of these lies about WMD in a new light. Because deep down, Armey and others really truly care more for America than they care about politics. That is what makes America great.

What's that. Oh. The article is from 1998? A different attack on Iraq? A different President. Oh. never mind. How embarassing.

Thanks to Eschaton for the link and quote.

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John Kerry finally starts swinging with some effectiveness.

"We shouldn't be opening firehouses in Baghdad while closing them in Brooklyn," Kerry said.

Well for that sentence alone he gets added to the "Interesting Candidates" list on the right.

Thanks Matt for bringing this one to my attention.

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Besides our store update (see below), we've added an Amazon link to the left. If you want to help out TCS, but don't want to buy some of our fine wares (though I don't know why you wouldn't), but you do want to buy something just click on that link and then go shopping at Amazon. Whatever you spend on that visit to Amazon, TCS will get a small percentage. This works everytime, so remember, each time you want to shop, go here first. thanks. Unless you don't want to support, then don't. That's okay too.

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Store Update:



The nightshirt we were selling before is not discontinued, so we've added tank tops, let's face it is summer, that's what we're sleeping in anyway. Also available: A women's version.

The Graph's are already out of date since this was made originally, things are just worse though, so why get more depressing.

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I had Jury duty - stuff will appear here tomorrow.

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Krugman: Pattern of Corruption

More than half of the U.S. Army's combat strength is now bogged down in Iraq, which didn't have significant weapons of mass destruction and wasn't supporting Al Qaeda. We have lost all credibility with allies who might have provided meaningful support; Tony Blair is still with us, but has lost the trust of his public. All this puts us in a very weak position for dealing with real threats. Did I mention that North Korea has been extracting fissionable material from its fuel rods?

How did we get into this mess? The case of the bogus uranium purchases wasn't an isolated instance. It was part of a broad pattern of politicized, corrupted intelligence.

Literally before the dust had settled, Bush administration officials began trying to use 9/11 to justify an attack on Iraq. Gen. Wesley Clark says that he received calls on Sept. 11 from "people around the White House" urging him to link that assault to Saddam Hussein. His account seems to back up a CBS.com report last September, headlined "Plans for Iraq Attack Began on 9/11," which quoted notes taken by aides to Donald Rumsfeld on the day of the attack: "Go massive. Sweep it all up. Things related and not."

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Now Iran is really scared:

Report: Iran Makes Giant New Oil Find

Iran has made a major new oil find containing estimated reserves of more than 38 billion barrels, making it one of the world's biggest undeveloped fields, a senior oil official was quoted as saying Monday.

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Commondreams.org posts this extraordinary letter to the president from Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity called
Intelligence Unglued. A succinct "connect the lies":

Joseph Wilson, the former US ambassador who visited Niger at Cheney’s request, enjoys wide respect (including, like several VIPS members, warm encomia from your father). He is the consummate diplomat. So highly disturbed is he, however, at the chicanery he has witnessed that he allowed himself a very undiplomatic comment to a reporter last week, wondering aloud “what else they are lying about.” Clearly, Wilson has concluded that the time for diplomatic language has passed. It is clear that lies were told. Sad to say, it is equally clear that your vice president led this campaign of deceit.

This was no case of petty corruption of the kind that forced Vice President Spiro Agnew’s resignation. This was a matter of war and peace. Thousands have died. There is no end in sight.

Recommendation #1

We recommend that you call an abrupt halt to attempts to prove Vice President Cheney “not guilty.” His role has been so transparent that such attempts will only erode further your own credibility. Equally pernicious, from our perspective, is the likelihood that intelligence analysts will conclude that the way to success is to acquiesce in the cooking of their judgments, since those above them will not be held accountable. We strongly recommend that you ask for Cheney’s immediate resignation.

Your refusal to allow UN inspectors back into Iraq has left the international community befuddled. Worse, it has fed suspicions that the US does not want UN inspectors in country lest they impede efforts to “plant” some “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq, should efforts to find them continue to fall short.

Equally important, it was Cheney who launched (in a major speech on August 26, 2002) the concerted campaign to persuade Congress and the American people that Saddam Hussein was about to get his hands on nuclear weapons—a campaign that mushroomed, literally, in early October with you and your senior advisers raising the specter of a “mushroom cloud” being the first “smoking gun” we might observe.

That this campaign was based largely on information known to be forged and that the campaign was used successfully to frighten our elected representatives in Congress into voting for war is clear from the bitter protestations of Rep. Henry Waxman and others. The politically aware recognize that the same information was used, also successfully, in the campaign leading up to the mid-term elections—a reality that breeds a cynicism highly corrosive to our political process.

The fact that the forgery also crept into your state-of-the-union address pales in significance in comparison with how it was used to deceive Congress into voting on October 11 to authorize you to make war on Iraq.

It was a deep insult to the integrity of the intelligence process that, after the Vice President declared on August 26, 2002 that “we know that Saddam has resumed his efforts to acquire nuclear weapons,” the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) produced during the critical month of September featured a fraudulent conclusion that “most analysts” agreed with Cheney’s assertion. This may help explain the anomaly of Cheney’s unprecedented “multiple visits” to CIA headquarters at the time, as well as the many reports that CIA and other intelligence analysts were feeling extraordinarily great pressure, accompanied by all manner of intimidation tactics, to concur in that conclusion. As a coda to his nuclear argument, Cheney told NBC’s Meet the Press three days before US/UK forces invaded Iraq: “we believe he (Saddam Hussein) has reconstituted nuclear weapons.”

Mr. Russert: …the International Atomic Energy Agency said he does not have a nuclear program; we disagree?

Vice President Cheney: I disagree, yes. And you’ll find the CIA, for example, and other key parts of the intelligence community disagree…we know he has been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons. And we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons. I think Mr. ElBaradei (Director of the IAEA) frankly is wrong.

Contrary to what Cheney and the NIE said, the most knowledgeable analysts—those who know Iraq and nuclear weapons—judged that the evidence did not support that conclusion. They now have been proven right.

Notice how the pattern of deception always follows the same logic, official ears are always deaf, and the case is always closed. This is what happens when an administration is made up entirely of CEOs who can never be held responsible, to whom the rule of law does not apply, and who can never be contradicted, about anything, ever. Why do people who have no wealth and no money argue so passionately for these fucks, who care nothing for them?

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Bush Family Values:

PRESIDENT Bush's brother Neil cheated on his ex-wife, Sharon, with local women he met during business trips to the Far East, according to a videotaped deposition conducted by Sharon's lawyers.

"I had had sexual intercourse with perhaps three or four - I don't remember the exact number - women at different times," Neil Bush said during his just-leaked deposition.
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"I was totally devastated, and so were our children upon learning this," Sharon told PAGE SIX about Neil's admission of cheating. "I trusted him while he was on all those foreign trips and kept the home fires burning while raising three great children . . . His behavior has been appalling. Where are the family values?"

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"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." -- G.W.B., penultimate State of the Union speech.

Hmm. Posted below are pictures of the president editing this now infamous address. I wonder how the original text read? Here are some possibilities:

"The British government has recently debunked the CIA claim that Saddam Hussein ever sought any quantity of uranium from Africa."

"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein never sought uranium from Africa."

"The British government recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Saddam Hussein."

"The British government recently sought significant quantities of Africa."

"The CIA has never sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa, despite what the British government has learned."

"The CIA has learned that Saddam Hussein has recently sought significant quantities of British government."

"Uranium is learning in Africa."

With a stroke of the pen, Bush chose his words not too wisely, but, well, ...

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Top Ten Conservative Idiots for the week:

6. Pat Robertson
When it comes down to a choice between George W. Bush and Charles Taylor, Pat Robertson will take the mass-murdering dictator any day. What do you mean which one? Aha, well, surprisingly, Robertson is squarely in Charles Taylor's camp (and no, I'm not talking about the camp that Taylor uses to train his army of child soldiers). Yes, the Patmeister thinks Bush should not be "undermining a Christian, Baptist president to bring in Muslim rebels." "How dare the president of the United States say to the duly elected president of another country, 'You've got to step down,'" said he last week. Er, okay, so Saddam Hussein rapes and tortures people and he gets the boot, but Charles Taylor's just a good Christian boy who never did nuthin' to nobody? Pat, you've completely lost it, old bean. Of course, this has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that the Reverend Pat Robertson has an $8 million investment in a Liberian gold mine that he set up in an agreement with Charles Taylor four years ago. Let's just face facts, Pat: you're going to hell.

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Lying in the State of the Union is huge. And lying about your lying is huge.
"It was the CIA's fault" "George just read the thing" (that's reasurring)
Look (thanks to Media Whores Online) how involved they used to say Bush was: Bush Edits State of the Union.


Sketching notes in the margin of speech drafts, President Bush rewrites portions of the address in the Oval Office Jan. 23, 2003.

But this isn't the only lie. If you forget (because there are so many), here's a checklist:

20 Lies About the War

Falsehoods ranging from exaggeration to plain untruth were used to make the case for war. More lies are being used in the aftermath.

Like Rumsfeld and Dubya, I too believe they will find some WMDs just like Reagan Jr. said "I'm sure we'll find some, they're being flown in right now in a C-130. "

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Is this how the next Presidency starts?:



Adding Draft Clark to our candidates section on the right.

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Dowd sums it up (comparing Clinton's lies to Bush's lies):

Dissembling over peccadillos is pathetic. Dissembling over pre-emptive strikes is pathological

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Not our shirt:



O'Reilly Youth playing the part:

Tempers Flare at Young Republicans Convention as Delegates Clash over Amendments

The Young Republicans convention broke down into shouting and some physical contact on Friday as delegates for opposing tickets clashed over amendments being considered by the Young Republican National Federation's (YRNF) Constitution and By-Laws Committee.
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"The delegates are in revolt over being railroaded by an administration desperate to keep themselves perpetuated in this way that it's gone for so many administrations to administrations without opposition," Flory told Talon News.

It seems they have a little trouble with democracy. Figures.

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A GI in Iraq has a blog. Ee I Ee I Oh

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Can you sue the Pentagon for gross negligence?

Lack of planning contributed to chaos in Iraq

The small circle of senior civilians in the Defense Department who dominated planning for postwar Iraq failed to prepare for the setbacks that have erupted over the past two months.

The officials didn't develop any real postwar plans because they believed that Iraqis would welcome U.S. troops with open arms and Washington could install a favored Iraqi exile leader as the country's leader. The Pentagon civilians ignored CIA and State Department experts who disputed them, resisted White House pressure to back off from their favored exile leader and when their scenario collapsed amid increasing violence and disorder, they had no backup plan.

Thanks to Cursor.org.

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