‘Course we know that this is something Bush will not do. Why, he’s doing a “heckuva job” as well. This, via Josh at Talking Points Memo

Eustis chief: Iraq post-war plan muzzled
Months before the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld forbade military strategists from developing plans for securing a post-war Iraq, the retiring commander of the Army Transportation Corps said Thursday.

In fact, said Brig. Gen. Mark Scheid, Rumsfeld said “he would fire the next person” who talked about the need for a post-war plan.

from Kevin Drum’s comments on the matter:

The Washington Monthly
And this also means that all of Bush’s talk about democracy was nothing but hot air. If you’re serious about planting democracy after a war, you don’t plan to simply topple a government and then leave.

POSTSCRIPT: An alternative explanation, based on Rumsfeld’s admonition that “the American public will not back us if they think we are going over there for a long war,” is that Rumsfeld and Bush were planning to stay but simply lied about it in order to build support for the war. However, based on the rest of the interview with Scheid, as well as the other evidence that there was no plan to stay and rebuild in any serious way, that explanation seems unlikely. The bulk of the evidence continues to suggest that democracy and rebuilding were simply not on Bush’s radar.

IOW, Bush and his administration are a bunch of bumbling, stumbling, arogant, greedy idiots. The latter of which is the reason for the first of them: greed; love of money corrupts absolutely.

Colin Powell told Bush that if he invades, he “breaks Iraq” and then “you own it”. The “gut” man; the “decider”, couldn’t/wouldn’t see it, or hear it. This is mlore evidence of the deep-seated problems of these masters of hubris.