lonely planet guide book (Iraq war?)

this i found humrous
apprently top officials used the lonely planet guide book to plan the war in Iraq,

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with all the resources
this is all they could come up with ?

[edit on 28-10-2007 by bodrul]

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CPA Order Number One on 16 May 2003 was a radical purge of the Baath party: the revolutionary movement that had propelled Saddam to power and helped keep him there.

Lord Jay says the order was too radical: "...there were real risks in removing from the administration really right down to quite a low level people who'd been members of the Baath Party, because they hadn't been a member of the Baath Party because they were particularly fond of Saddam Hussein, they were members of the Baath Party because they wanted a job."

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Thanks to the lack of a pre war planning the Iraqi people are fighting for there own survival against tyranny. Ill thought out wars get poor results .
I can remember being labelled anti American when I first joined ATS but it has turned out that people like me were right there were no plans for Saddam Iraq.

Has anybody heard anything as ludicrous as the notion that Iraq would rebuilt itself ?

[edit on 29-10-2007 by xpert11]