What about those WMDs?
President Bush spoke to a captive audience at the Naval Academy in Annapolis on Wednesday. The speech coincided with the release a document entitled “National Strategy for Victory in Iraq” (makes you wonder whatever happened to “Mission Accomplished” huh). The administration claims that this is the “declassified” version of their post-war plan and has been in effect since early 2003.
Now a lot of people have been blogging about how this document (and accompanying speech) aren’t really a strategy but a PR campaign to win back support for the war and stifle those critics who think Bush doesn’t have a plan. I’ll give them that, it is mostly a compilation of talking points and seems more like an administrational pat on the back for the good job they have done so far.
But something I’d like to know is this: if, as the administration claims, this is the plan they have been working off of since 2003, why is there no mention anywhere of securing and destroying WMD’s inside Iraq? Being that they were the reason we had to go in, you would think that would be part of the post-war plan. I guess when Karl Rove hastily compile this nice piece of political fluff (hence the Nov 2005 dating) he forgot to add that part.
(Originally posted on Yahoo360)
Now a lot of people have been blogging about how this document (and accompanying speech) aren’t really a strategy but a PR campaign to win back support for the war and stifle those critics who think Bush doesn’t have a plan. I’ll give them that, it is mostly a compilation of talking points and seems more like an administrational pat on the back for the good job they have done so far.
But something I’d like to know is this: if, as the administration claims, this is the plan they have been working off of since 2003, why is there no mention anywhere of securing and destroying WMD’s inside Iraq? Being that they were the reason we had to go in, you would think that would be part of the post-war plan. I guess when Karl Rove hastily compile this nice piece of political fluff (hence the Nov 2005 dating) he forgot to add that part.
(Originally posted on Yahoo360)
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