Iraq Coalition Didn't Plan for War Aftermath, U.K. Colonel Says

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Iraq Coalition Didn't Plan for War Aftermath, U.K. Colonel Says
Sept. 16 (Bloomberg) --

The U.S.-led coalition in Iraq didn't plan for the aftermath of last year's invasion that ousted the Baathist regime of Saddam Hussein, U.K. Colonel Tim Collins, renowned for the speech he gave his troops on the eve of the Iraqi battle, said in a BBC interview.

``The preparations for a free and fair Iraq weren't made,'' Collins told the British Broadcasting Corp. in his first interview since leaving the Army in January. ``The U.S. and its ally the U.K. are living with the consequences of having removed the Baathist regime without any thought of what would replace it.''

Before the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Collins told his men in the 1st Battalion of the Royal Irish regiment ``if you are ferocious in battle, remember to be magnanimous in victory,'' a speech that the BBC said was put on the wall of U.S. President George W. Bush's Oval Office in the White House.

>>>``The whole international community is dismayed at the results'' of the war, Collins said. ``Iraqis are dying in their tens and hundreds on a weekly basis.''

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1. So many see while others turn a blind eye. I would love to shove this down

*'s throat. Ugh:mad:

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2. Bush should replace his speech on the wall

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