Monday, April 19, 2004
When Did They Plan for War?
Josh Marshall's got himself a source:
"When Centcom planners were tasked with preparing to seize Iraq's southern oilfields they took the existing plan for an all-out invasion and essentially whittled it down, since conquering southern Iraq was a smaller version of what would be needed to conquer the entire country.
The chatter around Centcom at the time was this gambit was being pushed by Wolfowitz and was not necessarily done on the say-so of the White House.
How do I know this? From a highly credible source with first-hand knowledge."
Read the entire post, and the one previous to it regarding Saudi Arabia (via the Scotty Shuffle.)
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Josh Marshall's got himself a source:
"When Centcom planners were tasked with preparing to seize Iraq's southern oilfields they took the existing plan for an all-out invasion and essentially whittled it down, since conquering southern Iraq was a smaller version of what would be needed to conquer the entire country.
The chatter around Centcom at the time was this gambit was being pushed by Wolfowitz and was not necessarily done on the say-so of the White House.
How do I know this? From a highly credible source with first-hand knowledge."
Read the entire post, and the one previous to it regarding Saudi Arabia (via the Scotty Shuffle.)
| Permalink Here
