The United States has tapped a retired army officer - Maj-Gen Jay M. Garner - to head the Pentagon office planning for a post-Saddam Hussein administration in Iraq.I couldn't find mention of this in the Post, the Bee, or the Times. Do these US papers think that the "after the war" planning is of no importance? Or do they prefer to continue pushing the fiction that this drive for war hasn't been fully thought out?
Garner is "beginning the process of thinking through all things necessary for Iraq," Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told a Reserve Officers Association conference in Washington on Monday.
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I can't help looking at the article itself from a different angle than you though. First we put ourselves in a position where it would be very difficult to back down even if we wanted to, then we hire a guy to try to figure out if there is a way to build a democracy (or even a strong man regime) which can keep Shia and Sunni and Kurds from slaughtering each other without a huge permanent American occupation?
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