Comments on: Top Marine: No Plan For Post-Saddam Iraq

CBS News Exclusive: General And Superiors Didn't Have Plan For Control Of Iraqi Cities

[antoniof123]

Tomnberverly and mike_nyc1 I am sorry about this but we should not be in Iraq. There is no justification that can change it. Yes, we are responsible it is our fault for following a war monger and this group will be investigated. Of course like Nixon he will fight it and Daddy will try to help but just like Nixon when the evidence mounts he will surrender to the will of the American people. The sad part is he will fight it and if he and his people still don%u2019t get it we would forgive if he would just come clean. When you fight you show contempt to the people you are supposed to be the leader of then you have problems because if there is one thing I can truly say about America is that we don%u2019t like nor will we tolerate an arrogant fool who thinks that he can tell us what to do. Going back to Iraq we now have to help the children that we destroyed the lives of because we are responsible. For that we have to pay I only hope that the American people can see that.

[rjrtex]

Those of you still repeating the mantra of Saddham and WMDs please read the information for yourself and you will find that they did not exist!

Ahh, the power of hindsight. If you will recall, before the war every intelligence agency in the world said he did have them. Leaders have to react to the best possible info at the time a decision needs to be made. Regardless, that was only part of the reason for going to Iraq anyway. The fact is it is better to fight this battle on the streets of Iraq instead of the streets of America. At some point we have to fight and win this war, why not now?

[cbslib]

As a liberal I believe we should believe everything we see and hear from CBS. They are the BIBLE for truth, justice and the American way!!! If CBS can't report the truth, they'll make it up for a GREAT story. That's what makes them so outstanding. So many of us intelligent liberals believe everything the media reports as FACT cause we are too lazy to look for the truth. We are so smart we don't need the truth, we just think we know the truth which makes us perfect humans and far-more superior to all the low-life conservatives.

[ltmousseman]

To all of you Bush-hating anti-war Facists: Untill you have served this GREAT country and risked you life for it I just wish you would shut the f up until you know what your talking about

[ltmousseman]

To all of you Bush-hating anti-war Facists: Untill you have served this GREAT country and risked you life for it I just wish you would shut the f up until you know what your talking about

[wardmaynard]

I served 23 years in uniform, plus 17 months in Iraq doing construction work. We were not well organized for "reconstruction." However,I told my Iraqi friends who were at great danger on US construction sites that there was a silver lining to all of this. After all, if we appeared very well organized, our enemies would accuse the US of being a zealous colonial power. We had neither the people nor the plans to colonize Iraq. Thus, there is something to say for doing that job poorly grin ; it reflects on our intentions. We come from a tradition of citizen soldiers. We are certainly not professional colonizers. Cheers.

[gentryfunk-2009]

Did someone post that Saddham was a threat to the U.S.? I still ask, does anybody read history or at least know something about Iraq? Lordy, lordy folks, Saddham wasn't a big supporter of the US after Kuwait, but he did not have the capability or techology to hit the U.S.....read the inspection reports, read the CIA's own assessment before the war....Iraq was no threat.

Those of you still repeating the mantra of Saddham and WMDs please read the information for yourself and you will find that they did not exist!

[rjrtex]

For every general with this view, there are 10 with just the opposite. Why doesn't the media ever show them? Oh yeah, it would hurt the left's agenda to avoid addressing the single biggest problem in twhis generation faces - terrorism against the free, western world.

[hador_nyc]

To meboard,
That is only true in a case where you were attacked and must defend yourself. Certainly, you use what you have and who you have to fight what you have to, but if it's a preemptive strike like this one, we should have planned it out better. You analogy fails, because we could have used an extra few months, if necessary, to plan this thing better. The US was not in imminent danger of attack at the time. We had the time, and we should have taken some more to plan. For the record, I was serving on active duty as an intelligence officer in the USAF at the time. They, unlike China then and now North Korea, didn't have missiles that could hit us at home, nor was Iraq threatening to invade anyone. And, we did have plenty of assets in the area to deal with them if they did attempt an invasion. We were enforcing the No Fly Zones at the time.

[hador_nyc]

To meboard,
That is only true in a case where you were attacked and must defend yourself. Certainly, you use what you have and who you have to fight what you have to, but if it's a preemptive strike like this one, we should have planned it out better. You analogy fails, because we could have used an extra few months, if necessary, to plan this thing better. The US was not in imminent danger of attack at the time. We had the time, and we should have taken some more to plan. For the record, I was serving on active duty as an intelligence officer in the USAF at the time. They, unlike China then and now North Korea, didn't have missiles that could hit us at home, nor was Iraq threatening to invade anyone. And, we did have plenty of assets in the area to deal with them if they did attempt an invasion. We were enforcing the No Fly Zones at the time.

[fascistusa]

Wow. What a surprise.

Anyone else notice that America is just a FASCIST TYRANNY ruled by the Rich? Anyone?

Reliving the 70's. Vietnam. FAKE news. Corporate rule.

I'm sure proud to be an American. Where at least i'm TOLD i'm free.

[observantx]

I am still waiting on the press to report on the Saddam Hussein sponsored dirty bomb attack that killed 20,000 American Citizens in Times Square on New Years Eve 2005.... tomnbeverly

Huh?

Gee, I must not have read the paper watched TV or listened to the radio that day and missed the death of 20,000 people in Times Sqaure on New Years Eve. Hey, Isn't that shown on TV, ya know, when the droop the big lit up ball? I'm certain the video would have been on the news the next day.

Tomnbeverly you must enjoy a completely different reality than the rest of us. That's Okay though. As long as you don't operate any heavy equipment.

[olebd]

This whole war should be called Operation No Plan"

Just like when we invaded Afghanistan and didn't think to seal the border beforehand....thus allowing Osama to escape and hide.

Then again, we can't even seal the homeland border.

[tomnbeverly]

Obviously you haven't subscribed to the new season of Non-Partisanship on Capital Hill. Its time that both parties come together and clean this up. Everyone who isn't ignorant knows why we went to Iraq. The 04 election was a vindication on the why. The 06 election was a statement of dissatisfaction with a party on many levels. How can we win Iraq or that matter win against the evil Jihadists if we can't even stop fighting with each other.. Take the politics out of Iraq.

[cincigal74]

Bush,cheney and Rumsfeld should be forced to go to Iraq and live outside the green zone and clean up this mess they have made.Millions of people were opposed to this disaster,but they knew so much more than we did,so it is up to them to find a solution.Why should the Democrats tell them what to do?Did they listen to them for the past six years?No.They have got Karl Roves brain and Cheney's arrogance.So let them prove their smarts.They have proved that they can make a mess,now lets see them clean it up.

[tomnbeverly]

I am still waiting on the press to report on the Saddam Hussein sponsored dirty bomb attack that killed 20,000 American Citizens in Times Square on New Years Eve 2005.... Oh thats right George W. Bush connected the dots... He learned the lessons on 911. He imagined the threat, He saw Saddam as a Grave and serious National Security Threat. He tried and succeeded unlike his waggy fingered predecessor who admittedly "Tried but failed" so you understoon Clinton to mean get UBL.. I understood him as meaning 911 because had he not failed 911 would not have happened and for that matter neither would Iraq.

[rsoxfan1123]

No plan after the invasion? You think? No one but the republican party zombie faithful should have thought otherwise by this point, and to that brainwashed group no amount of evidence is going to make any difference.

[lcastle92407]

I'm wondering why this military officer is going public with information that is likely "classified?"

[bob graham las vegas]

This only confirms my suspicions that the foray into Iraq was for the sole purpose of getting Saddam, not for reasons stated, but because he put out a kill order on the previous George Bush president.

[woco74]

What did Gen. Hagee recommend? How did he know ahead of time what the situation would be in Najaf after the battle? If he did what was his recomendation? If he wasn't in direct command of the troops, why didn't he have a plan? What was he doing? Maybe we should hear from Gen. Casey