From heroes to targets [ABSOLUTELY MUST READ]

[grytpype]

http://salon.com/news/feature/2003/07/18/pre_war/index.html

The U.S. occupation of Iraq has turned into a daily debacle, say experts, because the Washington ideologues who planned the war were living in a fantasy.

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The Pentagon hawks who planned for postwar Iraq assumed American troops would be welcomed with flowers and gratitude. They assumed Saddam's regime could be decapitated but the body of the state left intact, to be administered by American advisors and handpicked Iraqis. They assumed that other countries, despite their opposition to the war, would come around once they saw how right America was, and would assist in Iraq's reconstruction.

The war's architects placed such unyielding faith in their assumptions that when they all turned out to be wrong, there was no Plan B.

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[Cronus Protagonist]

1. That's almost exactly what Ive been saying

They believed their own propaganda and tripped over the elephant under the carpet, in a nutshell.



http://kucinichforpresident.com - Kucinich Is The One
http://cronus.com/prayer - One of Kucinich's speeches

http://brainbuttons.com/home.asp?stashid=13 - cute little buttons
http://bushspeaks.com - sardonic political toons
http://cronus.com - enlightening and educational liberal fun

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[obietiger]

2. Everyone should read this

article at the Salon website - the picture at the beginning of article says it all - and is so sad.