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"..
The Telegraph used to be Britain's reliably mainstream conservative newspaper.
It's slipped lately.
Dropping Mark Steyn confirmed it.
If there is a civil war, we should back the winners, just for a change of pace.
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.
This is so simple it must be blonde.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
Not a question of if Iraq goes to Civil War, but rather when don't you think?
The Secretary of Defense tells reporters (in essence), "Look guys, I'm not predicting a civil war, but we're already 'wargaming' what our response would be". English translation: "We're trying to avoid being caught off guard". I'm sure the press will try to misconstrue that (as the "Telegraph's" headline may already have done), but it's better to acknowledge that we're looking into it now than to give the MSM the opportunity to say that we were caught totally unawares later.