"So early in 1999 he ordered that plans be devised for the possibility of the U.S. military having to occupy Iraq. Under the code name "Desert Crossing," the resulting document called for a nationwide civilian occupation authority, with offices in each of Iraq's 18 provinces. That plan contrasts sharply, he notes, with the reality of the Coalition Provisional Authority, the U.S. occupation power, which for months this year had almost no presence outside Baghdad -- an absence that some Army generals say has increased their burden in Iraq."
Are you suggesting he had one no invasion plan in 1998 and a military takeover in 1999? The good general seems to change with the political winds. On one hand he wants no part of an Iraq war, then, on the other hand like many generals always wants more troops than necessary to do the job. Perhaps he is a McCainiac who wanted a whole army in Afghanistan when we continue to do the job with 11,000 or about a division. I think the good general is just angry with Bush, Wolfowitz and the Jews in that order.