Anarchy, civilian casualties and terrorism... just some of the things that DIDN'T happen in Iraq (according to Rumsfeld memo)
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Red faced: Former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ordered the 'what did not happen' memo drawn up in 2004, just as the Iraq War
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If ever a man could be accused of tempting fate, it would have to be Donald Rumsfeld. In mid-2004, after U.S forces had been fighting in Iraq for
just over a year, the then Defense Secretary ordered the Pentagon to draw up a list of potential catastrophes that had been avoided
The document - dubbed the 'What did not happen' memo - was drawn up to make the embattled politician feel better. But officials found they had
spoken too soon after they all started to happen. Seven years later, the now de-classified document - obtained by American journalists using
Freedom of Information laws - reads like a shopping-list of the calamities that befell the oil-rich middle-Eastern country after the U.S.-led
invasion. It outlines 29 eventualities that Pentagon officials had apparently planned for, but which had not yet happened-like Saddam uses WMD against
U.S. or allied forces'.
But it also listed ten things that did eventually happen, and for which the invasion forces were clearly not prepared, including:1-Iraq
descends into anarchy; 2-Iraq becomes Balkanized; 3- There are mass Iraqi casualties; 4- The oil infrastructure is severely damaged or destroyed;
5-Disruption of oil production causes widespread economic problems; 6- Another state (e.g. North Korea) takes advantage of U.S. focus on Iraq; 7-
There is widespread vigilante justice; 8- Shi'a holy sites are damaged or destroyed; 9- A revolt of the 'Arab street' in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, or
Jordan causes political instability; 10- There is a dramatic surge in terrorist recruitment
Rumsfeld commissioned the memo in July 2004, just
over a year after the initial invasion and four months after the lynching of four Blackwater mercenaries in Fallujah marked the beginning of a bloody
insurgency. The memo emerged after Rumsfeld asked the Defense Department for a declassified version of the memo, along with thousands of others, to
help prepare a memoir of his time in the White House.
Source:
www.dailymail.co.uk...
z1JLOJqAfj
You'll have to go to the main article to read the rest but I think you got the picture of the death and destruction that came afterwards. No need
for the pics/vids etc.
Well, any respect I may have had for the man, is lost now. What a total failure he has turned out to be. I am beginning to think that there maybe
more to the whole conspiracy theory theme of him being involved in this for other reason than the USA.
Well, more evidence. but nothing will come of it. He'll be protected-unless we take to the streets...
