The Republican Plan for Iraq

“WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 — When Gen. Tommy R. Franks and his top officers gathered in August 2002 to review an invasion plan for Iraq, it reflected a decidedly upbeat vision of what the country would look like four years after Saddam Hussein was ousted from power.

A broadly representative Iraqi government would be in place. The Iraqi Army would be working to keep the peace. And the United States would have as few as 5,000 troops in the country.

Military slides obtained by the National Security Archive under the Freedom of Information Act outline the command’s PowerPoint projection of the stable, pro-American and democratic Iraq that was to be.

The general optimism and some details of General Franks’s planning session have been disclosed in the copious postwar literature. But the slides from the once classified briefing provide a firsthand look at how far the violent reality of Iraq today has deviated from assumptions that once laid the basis for an exercise in pre-emptive war.

The archive, an independent research institute at George Washington University, has posted the slides on its Web site, www.nsarchive.org.


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/15/washington/15military.html?ei=5090&en=ab52e1ac39c1c717&ex=1329195600&adxnnl=1&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1171681978-NZQYoB/ZiWb+J+EFQmAFBw”

“Republican plan or vision?

Was that their only vision, or just one vision?

And this all came from a slideshow?? No audio?? LOL!


What is the Democrat plan?


In the spirit of fairness and bipartisanship, I'll start a thread for the D plan.”

“I dunno, V. Why should we expect the generals to be smarter than their boss? In fact, don't most bosses avoid that situation?”

“News Alert; Drug addicts caLled upon to solve Drug cartel Wars.”

“We're just mopping up the stragglers.”

“You mean those bastards planned all this!”

“Gee, there's a couple more stragglers than we thought....”

“Greener pastures
drive to find
the round trip ended
same old kind.”

“Oh Canada!!”

“Love the mag cover. Wasn't Tommy Franks the ass kissing yes man that clown prince von Rumfeld brought in to replace the general who told Bush it would take a minimum of 250,000 men on the ground to even begin to control Iraq? That general's name began with an 'A'. The one Mutt said was an idiot?

Franks on the other hand told Bush,the neocons, and the sheeple exactly what they wanted to hear.

What we gonna do now man-boy George?
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“I believe that was Eric Shinseki.

That's one heckuva photoshop isn't it?   (the image is a link to the article)”

“did ya catch the story on page 22 :P”

“That Tommy Franks is a can-do guy.
He will never admit failure or even the possibility of failure and keep going no matter how hopeless or costly.”

“The carrier landing and the statue tumble were worth all of the money, Ah? The new Iraqi freedumb and that cheap oil aren't too shabby either. We should make this country remodeling a national hobby.”

“You're absolutely correct. I had my honest, truth telling generals mixed up.”

“That's the latest report from The Rubber Room................in Dying Color.”