U.S. lacked plan for rebuilding Iraq, report says(Bush never drew up plan)

[RedEarth]

The Bush administration never drew up a comprehensive plan for rebuilding Iraq after the March 2003 invasion, which contributed to a severe shortage of skilled federal workers in Baghdad and to the mismanagement of the country's oil money, according to a new government report.

"There was insufficient systematic planning for human capital management in Iraq before and during the U.S.-directed stabilization and reconstruction operations," said Stuart W. Bowen Jr., the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, in a new "lessons learned" report released yesterday. "The practical limitations ensuing from this shortfall adversely affected reconstruction in post-war Iraq."

The Pentagon's initial plans for reconstruction crumbled when it encountered an unexpected foreign and domestic insurgency that looted the country, sabotaged electric and water service, and killed hundreds of Americans and Iraqis in 2003 after the ouster of dictator Saddam Hussein.

The administration reacted by quickly establishing the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), directed by L. Paul Bremer, and pumped billions of dollars of United Nations-held oil cash into Baghdad. But, Mr. Bowen concluded in a report focusing on the CPA's staffing, "he unanticipated post-war collapse of virtually all Iraqi governing structures, substantially hindered coalition efforts to develop and rapidly execute an effective reconstruction program."

The report was the latest in a series of audits and updates from Mr. Bowen to document how the Bush administration oversaw more than $30 billion in Iraq cash -- the Development Fund for Iraq (DFI) -- and about $24 billion in U.S. taxpayer money for reconstruction.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20060227-102546-2603r

[wakeme2008]

1. I think this is wrong...

People at State had a plan but Rummy and the neocons shit canned it. :grr:

[rodeodance]

2. nation-building was never a part of the invasion--then it was a band-aid

approach---

[MadMaddie]

3. Okay.....this is a crime against humanity....

If we can get our troops out...the * cabal must be prosecuted...they were warned....and they have committed felonious crimes.


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"the unanticipated post-war collapse of virtually all Iraqi governing structures, substantially hindered coalition efforts to develop and rapidly execute an effective reconstruction program."
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[Sub Atomic]

4. Can we reframe this as a blowjob

so we can impeach this ass?

[seafan]

5. * never made an exit plan, because he never intends to leave. That's it.

[lumpy]

6. The whole world has been taken

to the cleaners by Bush and buddies.

[liberal N proud]

7. The only plan bu$h regime had was to gain control of the OIL!

Rebuild? I doubt it.

[Warren Stupidity]

8. Rebuild? Their intention was to wreck.

Rebuilding was the last damn thing on their mind. Assume that everything is working right according to plan. Now figure out what the plan was.

[Judi Lynn]

14. Absolutely right. Any pretense they are concerned about the survivors

is negligible. Look at the way they've treated them. He's opened the doors to hell in their country.

[Betsy Ross]

9. "unanticipated " ?

Another new word.

[gratuitous]

10. "Lessons learned" my sweet Aunt Fanny!

These kleptocrats had no intention of rebuilding Iraq -- after all, plannin's hard work, as I'm sure Chimpy would no doubt inform us as if we didn't know.

And what is this "unanticipated post-war collape of virtually all Iraqi governing structures" bullshit? You, me and the lamp-post all knew that Iraq was in the clutches of a one-man dictatorship ruled by the minority population. Once you decapitate that kind of a government, even a two-year-old would "anticipate" that virtually all of the governing structures would collapse. But apparently the combined mental firepower of the corrupt Bush administration isn't up to the standards of a two-year-old.

I don't know who they think they're fooling with this nonsense, but it's a smaller and smaller portion of the population all the time.

[wordpix]

12. of course: get rid of Saddam & his men & of course, Iraq gov't structures

would collapse. How assinine that ChimpCo couldn't anticipate that but then again, he ain't head chimp for nothing.

[TomInTib]

11. And just look at the source- The Moonie Times....

it just gets worse for those assholes all the time.

Karma, bastards.

[Up2Late]

13. I guess this IS News to the Washington Times readers...

...we've known this for a long time, for the WT reader, this is a wake-up call.

[fshrink]

15. 1- Bush couldn't draw a plan of his right upper drawer

2-There is the real plan and the spectacular plan,
3-The real plan is going just fine,
4-The spectacular plan is like an edition of a soap opera: it can be written, re-written, edited on the fly.