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Edited on Mon Aug-16-04 12:22 PM by buycitgo
http://www.first-draft.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=257just one example..... On giving Gen. Tommy Franks everything he asked for:
And I said to him: General Franks, do you have everything you need? Are you satisfied with the plan? And do you have all you need? And he looked at me and said: Yes, sir, Mr. President.
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And the reason I tell you that story is that Tommy, General Franks, now Tommy, knew me well enough to be able to walk right into the Oval Office and say: Mr. President, we don't have what we need. We need of this or that.
What Franks says: http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_np=0&u_pg=54&u_sid=1164825
The U.S. general who routed Saddam Hussein's army in three weeks warned before the invasion that a quick victory could lead to a "catastrophic success" because the United States was not prepared for postwar anarchy in Iraq.
"We will have to stand up a new Iraqi army and create a constabulary that includes a representative tribal, religious and ethnic mix," retired Army Gen. Tommy Franks writes in a new autobiography recounting the tense days before the war. "It will take time."
President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld agreed, but Franks did not get the "open checkbook" he needed to put Saddam's soldiers on the new Iraqi government's payroll.
"I would continue to argue that there could be no security without civic action," Franks writes in "American Soldier." "Penny wise will surely be pound foolish, I thought. We will spend dollars today . . . or blood tomorrow."
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