No it isn’t.
They had a window of opportunity, they calculated likely, probable, and worst courses of enemy action. They planned on what they could, and started getting the job done.
I know for a fact this is what was done, and what happened was enemy course of action number X. They didn’t spend a lot of time planning for it, because it was deemed to be extremely unlikely. Maybe the intelligence agencies flubbed it, I suspect that information was given to Saddam by the Ruskies that caused him to go for the most unlikely. The flippin ruskies probably got their info from the Rats.
Deemed unlikely by morons. To the rest of the world it was a known, you might even say, a likely threat. Hell, a lot of people DID say it was a likely threat.
Are you for real?
They used the worst case scenario to justify an immediate military action...and the rosiest scenario for what would come after.
Ridiculous.
If the overall strategy was to change the whole middle eastern dynamic by establishing democracy there..then they tried to do it on the cheap.
Gen.Shinseki was right about needed troop levels...and Rumsfeld and Co. were dead wrong...3,500 and counting wrong...not to mention the 1,000s of maimed.
No accountability.
Shameful disgrace.