Bloodless Coup

RAND's 2005 "Rebuilding Iraq" on Tommy Franks

So Michael Gordon's piece on the RAND report that's been hushed up for over 2 years is interesting mostly for the continual secrecy about even things that are already widely known, so long as they might prove the slightest bit embarrassing to the Bush administration. That said this bit is really sad:

Gen. Tommy R. Franks, whose Central Command oversaw the military operation in Iraq, had a "fundamental misunderstanding" of what the military needed to do to secure postwar Iraq, the study said.

Ouch. And this about a guy that various Republicans float as a possibility for the US Senate or even Vice President.