Rich's Tongfamily (Richtong.net add-on)

Daily Kos: “A Lack of Character”. I have no idea who Officer X is, but, it sounds all too real to me. The way a big corporation would work. Hopefully, it will all work out in the end. Will be interesting to see who really controls the Iraq reconstruction/occupation in the administration.
“Leaders misjudged Iraq”:http://www.helenair.com/articles/2003/03/30/montana/a08033003_03.txt. Those top civilian leaders “think all wars are small wars that will be over quickly,” Lt. Gen. Paul E. Funk told The Billings Gazette in a telephone interview Friday. They made a big mistake in underestimating the Iraqis, and they think air power alone can win the war, he said. “The highest levels (Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz) think this is simple, that the Iraqis would fall apart like the Taliban” in Afghanistan, he said. “The idea that the Iraqis would welcome us was very naive. There are a lot of people there who have a lot to lose if Saddam goes