[bagman]

Sorry, I stopped reading with “Later, the same general said they planned to take out seven countries in five years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran”.

Given the parlous state of the military in 2001, nobody would even think of proposing such a plan. Why do you think that the order of battle for Iraq-2003 was inadequate?

[wendy1946]

I totally despise Wesley Clark; the guy in this instance had no incentive to lie and was just explaining something to somebody as he had heard it at the time.

This article does in fact make sense out of what's going on in Libya; I'd been trying to figure out a motive for this one for the last several weeks and hadn't been able to come up with anything.