I'm lifting this from
The Huffington Post:
On Hardball Friday afternoon, Gen. Tommy Franks, the commander of the Iraq war, was defending Defense Secretary Rumsfeld against the recent offensive by the retired generals. In passing, he said this:
"Ask him about the 14 months we spent planning this thing."
That would put the operational, as opposed to contingency, planning as having started in roughly January of 2002, about eight months later than what was implied in Joint Chiefs head Peter Pace's statement at the Pentagon briefing earlier this week.
Oops!
January 2002 was just a few short months after 9/11.
How disgraceful is that -- while the people who actually hit us on 9/11 went scuttling away into the hills, the White House was wasting their time and resources exploiting 9/11 so they could live their little pet dream -- invade Iraq.
Good God ......
Now they've shot their wad, the military is bankrupt, the country nearly so, they've got no credibility, and they're all guilty of war crimes and of pissing all over the Constitution of the United States.
Can someone tell me again why they're still in power, threatening to invade other countries?
Helluva a job, Tommy Boy!