The neo-cons have been in place for a long time: Zalmay Khalilzad, the current U.S. ambassador to Iraq, was a longtime aid to Paul Wolfowitz (Packer, p. 90). Abr am Shulsky, formerly director of operations for the Office of Special Plans, was Wolfowitz's housemate at Cornell and Chicago. (Packer, p. 105)
Another warning ignored - Hatem Mukhlis to Pres. Fredo before the Iraq War: "If you don't win their hearts at the start, if they don't get benefits, after two months you could see Mogadishu in Baghdad." (Packer, p. 97)
On the immediate post-war situation: "The ministry that was his responsibility, like almost every other government building, had been looted down to the wiring and pipes; even the urinals had been unbolted from the bathroom walls. ... The Iraqi state had collapsed, and there was nothing to take its place." (Packer, p. 101)
Monday, August 14, 2006
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