Who's your Daddy, George?

A new bi-partisan(*) report by a Council on Foreign Relations task force says the USA has failed in post-war Iraq. And it points the finger of blame directly at - guess who? - Donald Rumsfeld and his neo-conservative colleagues.

The critical miscalculation of Iraq war-planning was that the stabilisation and reconstruction mission would require no more forces than the invasion itself.

As we all know, it was Rummy and his ideologically-stoned buddies who proudly boasted that half a dozen US marines armed with hi-tech pea-shooters could take (and hold) all of Iraq in half a day. Or something like that. And anyone who said otherwise was ridiculed, or sacked, or both.

And that's not all:

The report said US President George W Bush still had not made the changes in policy and government structure needed to respond to future post-conflict situations and said this should be a top foreign policy priority.

In other words, Bush & Co are still living in Neo-con La La Land.

* I say this was a bi-partisan report, but the GOP was represented by Brent Scowcroft, a man who is closely associated with the administration of George H. W. Bush (aka "Daddy"). Like Bush Senior, Scowcroft opposed the invasion of Iraq. It's therefore more than likely that this report bears the fingerprints of Bush Snr. A key quote from Scowcroft, warning agains the invasion:

I think we could have an explosion in the Middle East. It could turn the whole region into a cauldron and destroy the War on Terror.