The Bush Administration went into Iraq without a Plan B. Before the invasion, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he’d “fire the next person” who talked about a post-war plan.
Live and learn, right?
Wrong. This administration’s bedrock principle is never, ever learn:
During a White House meeting last week, a group of governors asked President Bush and Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, about their backup plan for Iraq. What would the administration do if its new strategy didn’t work?
The conclusion they took away, the governors later said, was that there is no Plan B. “I’m a Marine,” Pace told them, “and Marines don’t talk about failure. They talk about victory.”
Pace had a simple way of summarizing the administration’s position, Gov. Phil Bredesen (D-Tenn.) recalled. “Plan B was to make Plan A work.”
You know, I’m starting to think impeachment’s too good for Bush and his gang.
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