November 18, 2003

Brits Warned US About Lack Of Post-War Planning

As Bush prepares for his foolish $10 million trip to London, Sir Christopher Meyer — ambassador to the United States from 1997 to just before the war — says Britain warned the Bush administration before the invasion of Iraq that it was not planning sufficiently for postwar reconstruction and pressed for the invasion to be delayed. Meyer told The Observer in Sunday that the advice on postwar planning was ignored.

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