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What “could go terribly, terribly wrong�? The oil wells might be set on fire.

Or, alternatively, the same oil might be used/wasted as a moat around Baghdad. Or bridges might get blown up, slowing down not only troops but the transport of oil.

But this war was not, I repeat, not about oil.

Forget about the civilian deaths that resulted from the invasion and occupation–(over (over 100,000 as of October 2004). Or the reduction of 2/3s of Fallajuh to rubble. Or, etc.

Gawd forbid that something “terrribly terribly wrong” should happen to those oil wells.

And since we’re on the topic of Rumsfeld and strategic planning, let’s not forget Rumsfeld’s 16 October 2003 memo to General Myers, Paul Wolfowitz, General Peter Pace and Douglass Feith:

Today, we lack metrics to know if we are winning or losing the global war on terror. Are we capturing, killing or deterring and dissuading more terrorists every day than the madrassas and the radical clerics are recruiting, training and deploying against us?
. . .
Is our current situation such that “the harder we work, the behinder we get�?

This, two years and two wars after 9-11. Yet these are the questions, as Peter W. Singer observes, “that should have shaped Pentagon strategy from the start.�

Furthermore, Singer points out:

Secretary Rumsfeld questioned even whether we are “winning or losing the Global War on Terror.� He described how his office had yet to enact a “bold,� measurable, or even systematic plan to win the War on Terror, despite being two years and two ground wars into the fight. In short, what Rumsfeld’s memo admitted was a shocking absence of strategic thinking.

That’s “a shocking absence of strategic thinking.”

So now Rumsfeld can’t recall whether or not he planned for an insurgency. Guess he had oil on the brain.

I also don’t quite understand how Oxford University’s been discredited. Maybe you’d like to share a link?

And I don’t think the definition matters. What matters is the perception. “Insurgency” is just a nicer phrase than “open combat” or “armed rebellion.” Just like the slow slide from “privitization” to “personal accounts,” this administration just wants to use the most … dare I say, politically correct? phrase available, the better to sway opinion or blunt criticism.

Unfortunately, the people in charge still see war as a purely political act, and are content to ignore the impact in terms of real human suffering.

Also, the only WMDs in Iraq were the ones that the UN knew about or that we had sold Saddam. Unless, again, you’ve seen a report we haven’t.

Your posts are probably counterproductive to your own intents. You choose to write lengthy off-topic paragraphs instead of arguing against the main post. In other words, you actually help to reinforce the validity of the main post.

Unless you’re really a liberal hoping to achieve that effect … hmm…

and remember this from 2004
Post-war planning non-existent

The slide said: “To Be Provided.”

Just a side note: Hitler declared war on America and the Japanses attacked us, postwar planning doesn’t really apply under those circumstances. Some may argue otherwise, but they were not, as in the case of Iraq, elective wars. A better anaolgy would be the British in Iraq around 1925. The British were far superior in conventional warfare, but despite thousands of casualties, the Iraqi insurgents kept fighting to get the British out. They eventally succeeded, as no sacrifice was too great. Bush got us into this unwinable mess based on a multitude of lies and sexed up exaggerations, now we have to be part of the solution. Leaving Iraq in a shambles could lead to a regional civil war and a real oil crisis. Bush/Rummy need a plan that avoids the mistakes that defeated the British, yet they have no plan except to continue down the same disastrous road and its costing us a life a day or more and a billion dollars a week. Where are the competent adults in this administration.

Face it, this guy is about as slippery as a greased pig.