NBC, Brace Yourself!

NBC News has just verified the recently released seven British memos from Spring 2002. Get ready for Scottie, Dick and Rummy to go after NBC with the same vengeance they unleashed on Newsweek and Amnesty International. These memos demonstrate how British officials questioned the Bush administration's lack of post-war planning:

“The memos are startlingly clear that the British saw that there was inadequate planning, little planning for the aftermath,” says Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

And there's more. To prepare Blair for a meeting at the president's ranch in April 2002, a year before the war, four other British memos raised more questions.

After a dinner with President Bush’s then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, Blair's former national security adviser David Manning wondered, “What happens on the morning after” the war?

In yet another 2002 memo, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw asked, “What will this action achieve? Can (there) be any certainty that the replacement regime will be better? Iraq has had no history of democracy.”

What happens on the morning after the war? Who cares! As long as the oil ministry is protected we won't give a shit about the rest of the country. If only those silly Americans listened to the advice of the wise former-colonialists who tried to "spread democracy" in Iraq eighty years ago, then maybe things wouldn't have been so catastrophically successful.

The Downing Street Memo states that "Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." Terrorism. Oh, you mean that Bin Laden guy?

Asked if Pakistan has an idea where bin Laden currently is hiding, Musharraf said: “No we don’t at the moment. We don’t have a clear idea.” Musharraf also defended his strong support for the U.S.-led war on terror, which has drawn criticism from political opponents.

“What we are doing mainly is for Pakistan’s sake. Fighting extremism, fighting terrorism is in our own interest,” he said. “The vast majority of the people understand that this is a right policy,” he added.

Bin Laden is most likely hiding out in the western mountains of Pakistan, our brave ally in the War on Terror Tara. If Pakistani officials actually captured Bin Laden, Musharraf would be overthrown in an instant coup by Islamic militants who worship Bin Laden. I guess we might as well forget about Osama. That's what Bush would want us to do anyways . . .

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