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The lap dog didn't have a clue either

Herald Sun: Blair 'warned' of post-war chaos [19sep04]

This gets more and more ridiculous.

THE British Government has been accused of "clearly misleading" the public over plans for post-war Iraq after a newspaper reported Tony Blair was warned a year before the invasion that stability would be difficult.
The Prime Minister responded overnight that the allies had had a plan for post-war Iraq, but it had been frustrated by insurgents.

Citing government documents marked "secret and personal", Britain's Daily Telegraph said Mr Blair's chief policy adviser Sir David Manning had warned him US President George W. Bush had no answers to big questions, such as "what happens on the morning after".

The documents showed Foreign Secretary Jack Straw had written to Mr Blair a year before the conflict saying large numbers of troops would have to be committed for many years if order was to be maintained after the ousting of Saddam Hussein, the newspaper reported.

He noted that nobody seemed to know what would happen after a war had been won. "There seems to be a larger hole in this than anything," he wrote, according to the Telegraph.

And these people are running the world? (Ooops - excuse the typo - "running" obviously should be "ruinng."