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[Suzie-Q] Rumsfeld Says The Generals Are To Blame For Poor Pre-War Planning: RUMSFELD: Now, it turns out he [Shinkseki] was right. The commanders-you guys ended up wanting roughly the same as you had for the major combat operation, and that’s what we have.
[The Swamp] Rummy spun (dished to) military analysts: I, like you, would start with a real rummy, Donald Rumsfeld, then I would move on to, Brownie, Chertoff, Gonzolas, Ashcroft, his supreme court nominees, they all turned out not to be forthcoming in their appearances before the Senate Judiciary Committee. What, do you think their opinions will be any more forthcoming?
[News portal: politics best aggregator of the net] Rumsfeld blames the generals for poor pre-war planning.: Eric Shinseki famously predicted that “several hundred thousand” troops would be needed for post-war hostilities in Iraq. According to documents recently released by the Pentagon in response to The New York Times’s expose on its .
[The Agitator] Listen to the Generals: The insurgents realize this, which is why they’ll often attempt to provoke such overreactions to gain sympathy for their cause…which works in their favor in the case of Iraq, since they have the advantage of not being “foreign infidels” and therefore the population is more likely to identify with them than with an occupying force manned by people with a predominantly different cultural background who often don’t even speak their language.
[Outside The Beltway | OTB] Rumsfeld Blames Generals for Troop Strength: Ricardo Sanchez, presumably part of his book tour and it was very clear from his comments that neither did he understand the grand strategy of the invasion of Iraq nor would he have agreed with it if he did—his prescriptions for how things should have been done under his watch, while sound from a military standpoint, would have been completely at odds with the grand strategy.
[Small Wars Council] My review of Dale Herspring's Rumsfeld's Wars: The Arrogance of Power: He forced the military to go through an excruciating process of military transformation that meant reliance on high-tech weapons systems at the expense of cuts in personnel, and he involved himself directly in influencing the conduct of the war in Iraq in order to prove his transformational theories – with disastrous results for that mission and consequently for our national security. And, Herspring adds, as if turning military structure, tactics, operations, and weapons systems upside down were not enough, Rumsfeld and his supporters successfully lobbied the administration and manipulated data to send the American armed forces off to fight a war that many generals considered unnecessary.
[Blogrunner > Politics] THINK PROGRESS: Rumsfeld blames the generals for poor pre-war ...: Some recently released Pentagon documents include an "hour-long talk [then-Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld and Gen. Peter Pace, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had with military officers in late 2006." .
[theurbanhermit] 3396 - repost of 2/11 entry number 3059: One result was that “the U.S. government did not provide strategic policy guidance for postwar Iraq until shortly before major combat operations commenced.” The study said that problem was compounded by General Franks, saying he took a narrow view of the military’s responsibilities after Saddam Hussein was ousted and assumed that American civilian agencies would do much to rebuild the country.
[Military Forum] Sanchez Blasts Post-War Actions: Sanchez, in a new book being excerpted by Time magazine, said the Pentagon had but never implemented a 12- to 18-month plan that could have helped stabilize Iraq after Saddam Hussein's forces were defeated. Instead, it buried the plan, officially ended major hostilities, and permitted the Central Command staff that had overseen the war to walk away, he writes in Wiser in Battle: A Soldier's Story.
[Sonjas Blog] New Defense Secretary Changes Everything - Perhaps: Thirdly, he participated in, or instigated the firing of the Sunni’s who ran the Iraqi government before finding COMPETENT REPLACEMENTS to replace those fired. They knew how to turn the electricity on, and keep the machinery of government functioning.
[What-About-it.com - The Blog] Mission Accomplished! Or How We Won the War in Iraq: The Experts Speak: “Almost 25 years after the amusing The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation, Victor Navasky and Christopher Cerf have compiled its successor, Mission Accomplished! The new book, nicely illustrated by satirist Robert Grossman, hangs authorities of all vocations and ideological stripes with their words about slam dunks, cakewalks, willing coalitions, the war’s cost, Jessica Lynch, Blackwater and much more.”–
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[What-About-it.com - The Blog] War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on ...: With its blend of vivid narrative, frank analysis, and elegant writing, War and Decision is like no other book on the Iraq war. It will interest those who have been troubled by conflicting accounts of the planning of the war, frustrated by the lack of firsthand insight into the decision-making process, or skeptical of conventional wisdom about Operation Iraqi Freedom and the global war on terrorism””efforts the author continues to support.
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