This is the first section of a story from Reuters News Service today. I find the quote by General Peter Pace somewhat confusing.
"Pace also told the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee that the Bush administration had put off much of the planning for the aftermath of the Iraq war -- launched on March 20 -- out of concern such planning would bring on the conflict.
''We did not want to have planning for the post war make the war inevitable. We did not want to do anything that would prejudge or somehow preordain that there was definitely going to be a war,'' he said.
The United States, meanwhile, rejected Russian and U.N. proposals that international inspectors return to Iraq to look for weapons of mass destruction, none of which have so far been found."
Did'nt the attack literally take months of intense planning, yet they did'nt want to make post war plans because of fear that it would start a war?
Am I missing something?
http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusintl/reuters11-05-100316.asp?reg=mideast&vts=11520031652
"Pace also told the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee that the Bush administration had put off much of the planning for the aftermath of the Iraq war -- launched on March 20 -- out of concern such planning would bring on the conflict.
''We did not want to have planning for the post war make the war inevitable. We did not want to do anything that would prejudge or somehow preordain that there was definitely going to be a war,'' he said.
The United States, meanwhile, rejected Russian and U.N. proposals that international inspectors return to Iraq to look for weapons of mass destruction, none of which have so far been found."
Did'nt the attack literally take months of intense planning, yet they did'nt want to make post war plans because of fear that it would start a war?
Am I missing something?
http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusintl/reuters11-05-100316.asp?reg=mideast&vts=11520031652
