Rummy's memoir

[Jan Klimkowski]

Much of his explanation of what went wrong in the crucial first year of the occupation of Iraq stems from a prewar failure to decide how to manage the postwar political transition. Two differing approaches were debated in the run-up to the war: a Pentagon view that power should be handed over quickly to an interim Iraqi authority containing a number of Iraqi exiles, and a State Department view favoring a slower transition that would allow new leaders to emerge from within the country.

"Those key differences were never clearly or firmly resolved in the NSC," Rumsfeld writes. "Only the President could do so."

To strip away the jargon, Rumsfeld did not want the "democratic Iraq" of the Bush/Blair propaganda machine, so lovingly peddled by MSM.

Rather Rumfeld and his neocon buddies wanted to install a puppet, such as the liar and crook Ahmed Chalabi.