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Post hoc, ergo … ahh, fuck it (that’s my answer for everything). The NYT has a story on how State Dept pre-war planning was ignored by Rumsfeld and the admin. Check out this logic:

In the end, the American military and civilian officials who first entered Iraq prepared for several possible problems: numerous fires in the oil fields, a massive humanitarian crisis, widespread revenge attacks against former leaders of Mr. Hussein’s government and threats from Iraq’s neighbors. In fact, none of those problems occurred to any great degree.

Apparently being ready with massive food/water aid and teams to battle the fires that were started had nothing to do with the fact that those small problems weren’t catastrophes.

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