« March 9, 2003 | Blog Index | March 11, 2003 »
|
Advertisement |
March 10, 2003
Frank Miller, an official handpicked by Condoleezza Rice to handle postwar policy issues, briefs national security deputies and the President on postwar plans. Miller assures them that only the top one percent of Baath Party officials will be purged from the government and that deBathification will leave the Iraqi army largely intact. George Packer writes in The Assassin's Gate, "Everyone up to the president approved these eleventh-hour decisions. And yet, somehow, they would never matter in Iraq. They seemed to exist so that, in case anyone ever asked, someone would say, "Yes, the president was briefed and he signed off.""
Miller adds that it is important that deBaathification doesn't cripple the Iraqi military because the army will be integral to the postwar plan. Coalition forces do not have the manpower to control Iraq nor do the troops understand the political situation in the country.
Posted on 03/10/03 at 11:18 AM
Comments
TAGS
People: George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, Karl Rove, Ahmad Chalabi, Tony Blair, Jack Abramoff, Judy Miller, Saddam Hussein, Mohammad Atta, Al-Libi, Curveball, Abu Zubaydah, Al Qaeda, Jessica Lynch, John Kerry, Neocons, Plamegate, Doubters
Agencies: DOD, NSA, DOJ/FBI, CIA, DIA, DOE, State, TIA, FEMA/Katrina, UN, IAEA, German Intelligence, British Intelligence, Reconstruction Authorities
Other: Abu Ghraib, Aluminum Tubes, Niger Uranium, Oil, Afghanistan, Wiretapping, Downing Street Memos, Rathergate, 9/11 Commission, Detainees, Terror Attack, Terror Alert, Boondoggle, Sexed-Up Dossier, WMD, Mobile Weapons Labs, Weapons Inspection, Terror Prosecutions
RECENT COMMENTS
October 3, 2000 (2)
横浜デリヘル wrote:
横浜デリ...
[more]
Lie by Lie: The Mother Jones Iraq War Timeline (8/1/90 - 2/14/08) (160)
害虫駆除 wrote:
害虫駆除...
[more]
October, 2001 (7)
美容整形 wrote:
美容整形...
[more]
March 8, 2003 (2)
品川デリヘル wrote:
品川デリ...
[more]
September 3, 2002 (2)
勃起薬 wrote:
勃起薬 勃...
[more]
February 14, 2008 (2)
男性下着 wrote:
男性下着...
[more]
November, 1999 (2)
Penny wrote:
Well does it not just figure that "...
[more]
July 10, 2001 (5)
John Connor wrote:
Hey I am going to agree that this W...
[more]
June 30, 2003 (1)
Carole Obrecht wrote:
I was wondering if there is a list ...
[more]
December 12, 2001 (2)
Race Jones wrote:
Bush is such a lying scumbag. I can...
[more]
Movable Type 3.33