With the Best of Intentions, But Wrong Again
The Army has been task-forcing in Iraq, this time at the behest of an assistant Secretary of Defense, which means Rummy’s embattled battle-plans have outlasted Rummy.
The Army has been task-forcing in Iraq, this time at the behest of an assistant Secretary of Defense, which means Rummy’s embattled battle-plans have outlasted Rummy. The idea is to put Iraqi unemployed back at the work-tables of some 200 state-owned factories that were abandoned by the Coalition Provisional Authority after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
Uh-huh. Abandoned.
Item 13 (an appropriate number) on Rumsfeld's memo to his president, two days before getting the sack, reads “Initiate a massive program for unemployed youth. It would have to be run by U.S. forces, since no other organization could do it.”
The truth is that no other organization would do it, because it’s a death-sentence for prospective employees.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A suicide bomber targeting laborers killed 60 people Tuesday in Baghdad and wounded 220…