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OK...here it is:

When Gen. Tommy R. Franks and his top officers gathered in August 2002 to review an invasion plan for Iraq, it reflected a decidedly upbeat vision of what the country would look like four years after Saddam Hussein was ousted from power. A broadly representative Iraqi government would be in place. The Iraqi Army would be working to keep the peace. And the United States would have as few as 5,000 troops in the country.

Are you kidding me? Is this what our $400 Billion Military Budget gets us? A prediction that is so ridiculously wrong and offbase as to be simply unbelievable?

This PowerPoint presentation was only discovered through a Freedom of Information Act request from The National Security Archive, whose Executive Director, Thomas Blanton, commented:

"Completely unrealistic assumptions about a post-Saddam Iraq permeate these war plans. First, they assumed that a provisional government would be in place by 'D-Day', then that the Iraqis would stay in their garrisons and be reliable partners, and finally that the post-hostilities phase would be a matter of mere 'months'. All of these were delusions."

Delusions!!

You can read the actual Top Secret documents, code-named POLO STEP, at the NSA website at George Washington University.

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