There's No Plan Like No Plan

President Bush's assertion (after others had failed) that we invaded Iraq to bring democracy was a lie. Its that simple.

How do we know ? A recent interview with Brigadier General Mark Scheid, chief of the Logistics War Plans Division. He tells us that when Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld ordered the planning for the Iraq war to begin he told the planners not to plan for a long stay.

Planners being planners, they wanted to at least have a plan for what they called "Phase 4", including an occupation, so they kept including it in their drafts. Until, again according to General Scheid, Rumsfeld threatened to fire anybody who mentioned such plans again.

So, like the WMD that got us going, the "promotion of democracy" was a cynical lie designed to manipulate American public opinion. Unless, of course, Rumsfeld thought democracy could be planted like a flag and left to wave gallantly in the breeze.

Thanks to truthout, the Washington Monthly, Orin Kerr and the Hampton Roads Daily Press for this beauty which is inexplicably missing from the New York Times, Washington Post, etc., etc.

While we await the festivities that will doubtless surround the upcoming elections ( the R's stole the last two and that looks like the only way they'll get this one) and try to make sure we can spell i-m-p-e-a-c-h-m-e-n-t and i-n-d-i-c-t-m-e-n-t we will make every effort to

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