Rumsfeld implicitly admits lack of planning for Iraqi insurgency

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has implicitly admitted the Pentagon (news - web sites) had no specific plans for handling a widespread insurgency in the aftermath of the US-led invasion of Iraq (news - web sites), but still insisted US pre-war planning was "good."




Rumsfeld also suggested the controversy over missing Iraqi explosives will probably amount to no more than a storm in a teacup and compared it to other oversold stories that circulated during the war.


The remarks, made on Tueday in an interview with Cincinnati, Ohio, radio station, came amid a barrage of charges from Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) and his aides that the White House had failed to adequately plan for the possibility of a guerrilla war in Iraq.


"The postwar plan ... was designed to see that they were not able to destroy their oil wells, that they were not able to blow up their bridges, that they did not have massive humanitarian crisis with internally displaced people and refugees and food crisis, and that the war was conducted in a speedy way so that it would not run the risk of destabilizing neighboring countries," Rumsfeld said when asked to comment on the accusations.

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Rummy says they prematurely "retired" former Army chief of staff General Eric Shinseki, are dealing with insurgent problem on an ad hoc basis, comparing the museum looting to the missing explosives, etc. :eyes:

that's all. They needed to let off a little steam, and that's okay.

For the insurgents to attack the oil wells. Didn't anyone in that brain trust ever bother to think of that?

Its more like a tecup in a storm!

"to see that they were not able to destroy their oil wells"
you mean blow them up with um......380 tonnes of explosives?
SORRY-WRONG ANSWER!

...reasons Bush and this administration choose to invade Iraq. They most definitely had a plan for both the invasion and the occupation following the invasion, but to admit they had a plan would require them to disclose that plan. So the administration is lying to cover their tracks while they continue to execute those plans and objectives, namely to have a permanent U.S. presence in oil rich Iraq with a government of their selection, under U.S. control supported by 14 military bases and U.S corporations running all of the economic functions in Iraq and that region. The military commanders are following that plan to the letter.

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http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/InfiltratingTheUSMilitaryGenBoykinsWarriors.html

put oil and oil production on the top of the list?

Protect the oil wells & the bridges needed for transportation. To protect the workforce, avoid the massive humanitarian crisis that would result in too much money and resources going to social reparations; and to work without interference from nearby countries, don't do anything to annoy them.