Laura Bush: "Careful what you say..."

Laura Bush has said we should be careful what we say about Iraq, because the enemy is listening. What nerve! If only her incompetent husband would listen to alternatives. The mess in Iraq is clearly his fault, and the fault of Donald Rumsfeld. In the planning of the war, there was no post war planning. As an afterthought, a few weeks before the invasion, Rumsfeld and Bush brought Gen. Ray Garner out of retirement to head up post war Iraq. He only had weeks, but did a good job of finding administrators and coming up with a strategic list (1. Provide clean water, handle sewage 2) resume pumping oil....and so forth). But Rumsfeld didnt like his list of people - too many from State Dept, some were linked with the Clinton administration. So Garner had to go over there with only a minimal staff. Then the looting began: no one had a plan to stop looting, and the Army didnt want to act as police (they shouldnt, they are warriors not police officers). The ministries were looted so bad, Garner had to repair them with tarp and tape. Then he negotiated with the Iraqi army generals and the top Baathist administrators: they would return to work for a one time payment of $20, and promises that within 3 weeks their paychecks would be restored. Thats about $3-5 million for an Iraqi army and bureaucracy - a bargain! Garner wanted to use the Iraqi military to rebuild the country: kinda a military core of construction workers. But Bush picked Paul Bremer and replaced Garner, without first telling Garner. Bremer told Garner the Iraqi army would be disbanded, and no member of the Baathist party could work for the government: overnight Garner figured we made about 300,000 enemies. Garner told Bremer that it would take at least 3 years to build a new army and get the country working again, and during that time, he said "we will be sending teenagers home in body bags." So we should be careful about what we say Ms. Librarian? This is the worst case of "Groupthink" since the Bay of Pigs invasion - the problem with Iraq is the poor planning and execution of post war conditions, something almost completely overlooked by a group of ideological, cool aid drinking incompetents, headed by the Incompetent in Chief, George W. Bush.