John Glenn quote (warning, some content may incite anger)

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Originally Posted by BleedBurgundy

We DID have a plan. Saying otherwise is hyperbole generated by those who are diametrically opposed to everything that this administration has done.

Well evidence shows we didn't have much of a plan whether you think we did or not. We had no inkling of what it would take to manage the peace and WE KNOW THAT NOW since we have the benefit of history as proof. If you want to quibble about semantics and the meaning or "we didn't have aplan" then go for it. What I meant and I think any reasonable person knows this is that whatever our plan was it was poorly constructed and appears to have been nothing but an afterthought. All in all it appears our "plan" wasn't much of a plan at all more than a vague naive notion of cheering crowds happy to see us liberate them. And as other s can atest to I am anything but "diametrically" opposed to this administration. I call it being honest and not being idealogical or partisan.

We did not go to war at the cost of at least 4,000 american lives for the sake of Rumsfeld consolidating power.

Think what you want but Rumsfeld's drive for power WAS a big motivating factor behind the entire Iraq theatre.

Anyone that presumes to know the innerworkings of the cabinet that decided action on this war either is delusional, believes everything they see on CNN and read in the NY Times or both.

Or maybe someone who doesn't has their head in the sand.