State Department memo warned of post-war 'planning gaps'

CNN ^ | 8/18/2005 | CNN

[PAMadMax]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Little more than a month before the start of the Iraq war, State Department officials said they warned U.S. military planners about possible "serious planning gaps" for the post-war period, according to newly declassified documents obtained by George Washington University.

[PAMadMax]

Yep, spike the Able Danger report which sheds a bad light on Komrade Klinton and Krew, yet push out drivel like this.

[deadeyedawg]

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and you're surprised they've got deflector shields up for Bubba K!?

[RexBeach]

"Documents obtained by George Washington University"? Huh? GWU is now a member of the press? What garbage is this?

CNN=Chicken Noodle News

[Brilliant]

Yeah, so? You can warn about anything. We've got warnings running out of our ears. The useful thing would be to give info or to offer solutions. Warnings are a dime a dozen.

[Praxeologue]

This was reported on Fox as well.

[foghorn126]

It's the State Department! Under Powell and the like, they would have had problems with a postwar plan that provided new homes, new cars, and $100,000 for every Iraqi citizen. They're nothing more than a bunch of leftover Vietnam protesters who earned their way behind a federal desk. Thank God Condy Rice is cleaning house!

[atomicpossum]

Exactly my thought. This will get play, Able Danger won't.

[EagleUSA]

** This is just CNN trying to take attention off of ABLE DANGER AND CLINTON, GORELICK, RENO, and the rest of the criminals.

[HawaiianGecko]

	I find it humorous that CNN and many others seem to continuously believe that they have found a "smoking gun" whenever they find a silly "memo" like this one addressed to State Department Under Secretary Paula Dobriansky, a person who's identity is unknown to most people. In a bureaucracy as large as the American government, I'm sure that you kind find memos suggesting little green men reside on Mars. Big Deal!

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I find it humorous that CNN and many others seem to continuously believe that they have found a "smoking gun" whenever they find a silly "memo" like this one addressed to State Department Under Secretary Paula Dobriansky, a person who's identity is unknown to most people. In a bureaucracy as large as the American government, I'm sure that you kind find memos suggesting little green men reside on Mars.

Big Deal!

[PAMadMax]

Both situations (Able Danger, these "memos") get play. CNN will use these memos to "spike" Able Danger to protect Klinton, Gorelick, etc as nauseum.....

[rushmom]

That's exactly right. Liberals in the bureaucracy are trying to soften the blow of the truth regarding Clinton's ineptitude and negligence regarding terrorism.

[Bigh4u2]

Althought the 'memo' maybe be new, the information isn't.

These are the exact same talking points that would being reported by other, prior to and since the end of the invasion.

Nothing to see here. Move along.

[Patriot Hooligan]

The memos CNN mentions might be real, but the fact remains... If the Clinton team had acted on the Able Danger info there wouldn't have been a need to go into Afghanistan and Iraq.

[sgtbono2002]

The State Department feels they are not a part of this administration and they arent. They are a group of Clinton leftovers who feel they know what is better for the United States than George Bush does. No one has ever taken them to task and they are pretty much autonomous. Most are civil service a nest of Clintonites almost impossible to clean out.

[Names Ash Housewares]

and were there "planning gaps" priot to WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War, Somalia, etc etc?

Its war. its chaos, its not a 3 act play your writing when you go to war. Show me a war that everything went as planned and everything was as predicted and every possibility planned for.

[JediForce]

The leftists in the State Department must have rushed this stuff out in a panic after the N.Y. Slimes reported on the Zipper's failure to deal with Bin Laden in the '90's.

When President Bush said this would be a war fought on many fronts...he wasn't s#1#ting.

JEDI