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The Best Laid Plans

By The Daily Dish
Feb 17 2007, 3:53 AM ET

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Here's Rumsfeld's unhinged plan for 5,000 U.S. troops in Iraq by 2006. You can read the full memo here. Looking at it today provides an insight into both the utopian derangement in the Bush administration before the Iraq war - but it still doesn't fully explain why the administration refused to start over as soon as this plan revealed itself to be absurd.



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