>Chicken Little here, reporting for abuse...
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>I've certainly heard that the retired U.S. general is set to go in as soon as told and take responsibility for immediate post-war administration.
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>What has become unclear is the purpose and intention of the Rumsfeld/cabal (Wolfowitz has been overseeing this group for several MONTHS (more than 12) now). That it relates to PUPPETRY is indisputable in my mind, and I think the minds of most of the (rest of) the world too.

The U.S. has been quite clear that Iraq will eventually be run by Iraqis and it will no be a puppet regime. You are looking for conspiracies when there are none.

>Why has Rumsfeld (or more likely Wolfowitz) felt it necessary to have them so close at hand at all?... First in norther Iraq and now - 500 people at great expense - to southern Iraq (near Nasiriya)? It isn't good enough for them to be in Kuwait, or even in their homes to come on short notice? Why haven't they been with the retired general?

What difference does it make where they are?

>The BIG question remains - what business is it of Rumsfeld's in the first place???? The retired general is Rumsfeld's business, to be sure, but what of these 25 departments made up of long-ago Iraq residents who will have no credibility with Iraqis nor with other arabs in the region????

What is your plan?

>Tony Blair has been vocal in recent days that the U.N. will play an important role post-war, and I have no doubt that it is all in his attempt to put President Bush in a box so that the U.N. is not relegated to a subordinate secondary role in the aftermath.

We have seen how the U.N. does in the Balkans. No thanks.

>I believe that President Bush will get his own way and do what he wants regardless. If President Bush elects to use the Rumsfeld (cabal) plan then I think it definitely is kiss bye-bye to the U.N. and look out world!