Sounds like Franks and his team believe in the Easter Bunny as well. Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act we are seeing more details of the shoddy work and pie-in-the-sky planning that took us into Iraq in the first place. You just know that somewhere there is a new PowerPoint presentation explaining how easy and successful invading Iran could be.
Some of the planning by Gen. Tommy Franks and other top military officials before the 2003 invasion of Iraq envisioned that as few as 5,000 U.S. troops would remain in Iraq by December 2006, according to documents obtained by a private research organization.Of course, we know now that Tommy Franks is a big Republican, and fancies himself the bigwig party activist, having very publicly endorsed Bush for re-election and then giving a pro-Bush speech at the Republican National Convention in 2004. Not the kind of thing an impartial military leader does. Then again, look at Colin Powell. It is funny how quickly these partisan Republican military "leaders" fall from grace once they touch the face of Bush.
Slides obtained by the National Security Archive under the Freedom of Information Act contain a PowerPoint presentation of what planners projected to be a stable, pro-American and democratic Iraq after the ouster of Saddam Hussein.
“Completely unrealistic assumptions about a post-Saddam Iraq permeate these war plans,” said National Security Archive Executive Director Thomas Blanton in a statement posted on the organization’s Web site along with copies of some charts used in the PowerPoint presentation.
