SpeedRacer 1 #1 January 1, 2007 clicky General says Rumsfeld refused to plan for postwar Iraq September 10, 2006 Rumsfeld warned ‘he would fire the next person’ who talked about need for such a plan, retiring commander says. Long before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld forbade military strategists to develop plans for securing a postwar Iraq, the retiring commander of the Army Transportation Corps said Thursday. In fact, said Brig. Gen. Mark Scheid, Rumsfeld said “he would fire the next person” who talked about the need for a postwar plan. Rumsfeld did replace Gen. Eric Shinseki, the Army chief of staff in 2003, after Shinseki told Congress that hundreds of thousands of troops would be needed to secure postwar Iraq. Scheid, who is also the commander of Fort Eustis, made his comments in an interview with the Daily Press. He retires in about three weeks. In 2001, Scheid was a colonel with the Central Command, which oversees U.S. military operations in the Middle East. On Sept. 10, 2001, he was selected to be the chief of logistics war plans. On Sept. 11, he said, “life just went to hell.” That day, Gen. Tommy Franks, the commander of Central Command, told his planners, including Scheid, to “get ready to go to war.” A day or two later, Rumsfeld was “telling us we were going to war in Afghanistan and to start building the war plan. We were going to go fast. “Then, just as we were barely into Afghanistan, Rumsfeld came and told us to get ready for Iraq.” ---- so, regarding what would happen after Saddam was overthrown, Rumsfeld resolutley shoved his head in the sand. Here's a related articlehttp://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/9927782.htm Unfortunately, I don't think there's any precedent for impeachment on the basis of extreme incompetence or negligence. definition of gross negligence. Intentional failure to perform a manifest duty in reckless disregard of the consequences to another person's life or property. Speed Racer -------------------------------------------------- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
