Rumsfeld: We're Trying To Figure Out What To Do If Iraq Falls Into Civil War

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 3-19-2006 | James Langton

[MEG33]

Admission we were preparing...?? What would be the implication if we were not preparing for this? I can hear the hue and cry now.."Caught flat footed with no plans"..

[Dog Gone]

The Telegraph used to be Britain's reliably mainstream conservative newspaper.

It's slipped lately.

Dropping Mark Steyn confirmed it.

[RightWhale]

If there is a civil war, we should back the winners, just for a change of pace.

[Zeroisanumber]

Surround the towns with US troops, use the Iraqis to hold down the neighborhoods, take the opportunity to let the hottest of the hotheads kill one another.

[Stentor]

Mr Rumsfeld's admission that "the intelligence community are thinking about this and analysing it" comes despite the White House's insistence that Iraq is not slipping into civil war.

This is so simple it must be blonde.

[zarf]

Surround the towns with US troops, use the Iraqis to hold down the neighborhoods, take the opportunity to let the hottest of the hotheads kill one another.

LOL!

We will not be around. We are heading out of Dodge as I type.

[Txsleuth]

Joe Biden's comment sent chills down my spine...

Yeppers, this Congress is gonna try to do what Congress did in the 60's and 70's....run the war by THEIR fiat.

[BallyBill]

Rumsfeld: We're trying to figure out what to do if Iraq falls into civil war

Is this an actual quote? Because I can't find it in the story. They seem to imply that he actually said that. Maybe it is just too late for me or he didn't actually say that.

[Paulus Invictus]

Here, Rummy, let me help. All you need to do is carpet bomb the Sunni Triangle and its leader into oblivion and then bomb the Iranians who are supporting any group like them whose intention is to cause a civil war.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Admission we were preparing...??

I would hope we were preparing long before now!

[Txsleuth]

I am sure they have worked up war plans for a LOT of contingencies...in a lot of different countries as well..

Besides, what has Kerry, Biden and others bitched about since day one???

Bush didn't have a PLAN!!!

aaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrggggggghhhhhhh!

[MEG33]

Of course!

[John W]

"But Iraq's own national security adviser, Lt Gen Wafiq al-Samaraei, urged the Americans to loosen their security net around the Sunni-dominated city of Samarra, and complained that too many "innocent" young men were being rounded up."

Screw you, Wafig.

[eeevil conservative]

WHAT? I can't believe this...

Rummy is actually thrwoing bones to the media?

are we the only ones still sane?

[Txsleuth]

Do you remember the article I posted yesterday about the group that Guiliani is joining to "go over the Iraq situation"???

Read this article...and we see the culprit, I think, for calling for this new investigation.

[jneesy]

for an administration that was so on top of this was at its start they sure do seem to be making some boneheaded moves lately

[blam]

"The Telegraph used to be Britain's reliably mainstream conservative newspaper."

Yup. Slipping to the left.

[Shadowstrike]

Not a question of if Iraq goes to Civil War, but rather when don't you think?

[operation clinton cleanup]

I hope Rumsfeld consulted with Corporal Biden and Lt. Kerry on any contingency plans!