Report: Army buried critical publication

Report: Army buried critical publication
By James Warden, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Tuesday, February 12, 2008

The Army buried an unclassified report that criticized a wide range of military and civilian leaders about their planning for post-war Iraq, The New York Times reported Monday.

The report on rebuilding Iraq was one of seven done by the RAND Corp. on the lessons learned from the war. It took 18 months to complete and was submitted in the summer of 2005.

When the researchers were done, they found problems with “nearly every organization that had a role in planning the war,” the newspaper reported.

Critique targets included:

* President Bush, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice by implication, who the authors said failed to resolve differences among competing agencies such as the Defense Department and the State Department.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=52398

Since Bush came in it has been his people put into every agency of the govt. and things done in this one party thinking way. This is how Bush wanted it. His people even ran Iraq. In this messy form of bottom up govt. trying to replace it with a political thinking top run govt. out of the WH has worked bad. I also do not think Bush or many in Congress has caught the feeling of what the people in this country are doing. Frankly I think it is a world wide thing. The old days are just going and it is hard for many to face. It is out their and even if Obama is running with it, it will stay in the air even if he does not make it. A women running is part of it. It is to bad Clinton has come from this old part of the govt. Another family that has been around to long. Didn't you feel this all the time Bush has been President? Some thing was wrong and why were not the people running him off? I think it is great I am going to die in a world that has so changed since the one I was born in (the 30's) but I would say that is not how people think I should feel. It is just hard to face. So lets hide it.