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Friday, July 11, 2003
"Give Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz the
boot." H.D.S.
Greenway explains why this
morning in a column in the Boston Globe:
The Pentagon seems to have
believed that Iraqi army units and policemen would come over to
the American side with their forces intact and begin working for
the Americans. It seems not to have occurred to them that another
scenario might unfold, that the soldiers and police would simply
melt away and that chaos would take over. The great failure of
Pentagon planning was that there was no Plan B if Plan A failed.
After trying to run Iraq on the cheap, Rumsfeld this week doubled
his estimates for the cost of maintaining troops in Iraq.
Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz aren't going
anywhere, but that doesn't mean Greenway is wrong.
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Dan Kennedy is senior writer and media critic for the Boston Phoenix.
