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Pentagon had no detailed plans for postwar Iraq

posted by ewing2001 on Saturday July 12, @10:09AM
from the AFP dept. Bush

Pentagon had no detailed plans for postwar Iraq: report

AFP -Sat, Jul 12, 2003

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Pentagon planners failed to develop detailed plans for postwar Iraq because they were convinced Iraqis would welcome US troops and that a hand-picked exile leader would replace Saddam Hussein and impose order.

The exclusive report in Knight Ridder Newspapers quoted more than a dozen current and former senior government officials, many of whom linked a lack of US planning to the current chaos in Iraq.

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"There was no real planning for postwar Iraq," said one former senior official. Most of those interviewed requested anonymity.

...Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith, the head of the Pentagon planning group, denied the plan to install Chalabi, but Pentagon advisor Richard Perle confirmed it.

"The Department of Defense (news - web sites) proposed a plan that would have resulted in a substantial number of Iraqis available to assist in the immediate postwar period," Perle, a close counsellor of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, was quoted as saying.

Had it been accepted "we'd be in much better shape today," he said

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