NYT: White House to Overhaul Iraq and Afghan Missions

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"The White House has ordered a major reorganization of American efforts to quell violence in Iraq and Afghanistan and to speed the reconstruction of both countries, according to senior administration officials.

The new effort includes the creation of an "Iraq Stabilization Group," which will be run by the national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice. The creation of the group appears to be part of an effort to assert more direct White House control over how Washington coordinates its efforts to fight terrorism, develop political structures and encourage economic development in the two countries."


http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/06/international/06PREX.html?hp


The good news: people in the White House FINALLY realize that what's going on in Iraq is bad.

The bad news: like the good MBA-CEO that he is, Chimp has decided to "solve" the problem by reorganizing the bureaucracy in charge, and giving more power to one of the doofuses who got us into this mess in the first place (Rice).

If you've ever worked for a corporation, you KNOW how this will turn out. It won't work. At least for very long. Reorganization to fix a failed policy is just an excuse...unless the policy itself changes, the reorg won't do much.

This is like something out of Dilbert. We have the Pointy-Haired President.

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and both seem to be in action here.

total goal achievement quality process management.

Yes, but are our processes in Iraq ISO 9000 compliant? Maybe that's the problem!

Otherwise it will all be pointless.

someone who has a "clue?"

And putting the Activities Director in charge of navigation?

So tell me, folks, is there any more incompentent ninny in this entire totally incompetent administration than Condosleeza?

--with the Middle East roadmap. I'm sure she'll bring all her problem-solving skills to bear on Iraq!

wow, even iraq isn't immune

what's good for the goose...

"let's make it happen, people"

You make them disappear.

Dear Condi is being charged with the mass grave assignment.

There was NEVER any other way to do it. NEVER any other way to reorganize or "pacify" the Middle East except by mass murder.

Either Condi fails, or Condi sticks the problem in the ground.

And then fails.

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

That is, the first thing you do is hire somebody to blame it on when it fucks up.

Meaning: Rice is toast. She is being set up to take a fall. Watch it unfold.

:freak:
dbt

They are grooming Sleezy for VP

Is going to stand for:

A) A woman
B) A BLACK woman

for veep? If she's on the ticket, it will be Rove's "Hail Mary." OTOH, "Toasty Dick" makes quite the mental picture.

:evilgrin:
dbt

As the National Security Advisor, you'd think she has enough cake on her plate. Weren't she and Powell charged with solving the Israeli/Palestinian crisis? We know how that's going. Now she gets to be in charge of converting both Afghanistan AND Iraq.

"Iraq Stabilization Group" = ISG = "Ideologues Sinking Grandly" or
"Idiotic Smirking George." A simple equation, really! :evilgrin:

its new, its comfortable, its more of the same meaningless shit: collateral damage takes on a whole new hysterical meaning in season 2 of America's New War...

to shield itself from transparency.

This new "group" just creates MORE jobs for their cronies and contributors. It's more quid pro quo - cash and carry gummit!

I think that anything the neocons try to do will make very little difference.

They were suppose to be our slaves and we take their oil!

DANG!! :bounce:

Oh yeah, like that'll do a lot of good. Especially if CONdi runs it. Actually, sounds like a good thing. Anything she's in charge of will end up an abysmal failure, just like everything else she's touched. Another fabulous opportunity to drop the ball, CONdi.

I don't remember that Condie has ever directly managed anything before this. So,is Bremer out? Everyones observations about this looking like a failed corporation are dead-on. Everybody is starting to say "waddaya hear??"

Once he think he can run things we are really on the rocks. He has never run one thing right yet and he is near 60 I think.Bush leaves a trail of rot in his wake.

That's the only thing Captain Codpiece knows how to run. Ya gotta go with experience.

Can someone please tell me wtf is going on?

I think the White House is on to something big, 'eh?

Sorry to shout, but doesn't anyone else realize that this is how they're going to push the Wilson affair off the front pages of the papers?!? Don't let this happen!

Okay. Condi Rice is taking over. The announcement is overshadowed by the Recall. Next.

The USA has a hard enough time running the USA !

What ever made them think that they could run a Muslim Country ??

Look at the Homeless and Poor in any American city -

The WH obviously does NOT know how to take care of people

Just My Humble Canadian Opinion

You are correct Humble Canadian.

Your,
Disgusted American

Need I say more?

REGIME CHANGE STARTS AT HOME

The tours of duty for the present troops will be ending soon and there are not enough to send over unless we send back the smae troops that returned not that long ago...That is the writing on the wall.

:crazy:

he's putting in a t-ball field or cutting taxes?

It's make or break time for Ms Rice to show how well corporate managers do in the real world.

that she read a memo that said Iraq hadn't tried to get uranium in Niger. Must be more the big picture typebecause she's weak on details.

Just so you know, according to the American Historical Review, December 1985, Rice “frequently does not sift facts from propaganda and valid information from disinformation or misinformation,” she “passes judgments and expresses opinions without adequate knowledge of the facts” and her “writing abounds with meaningless phrases.” (p. 1236)

No wonder they picked this idiot! She fits right in with the rest of them.

“passes judgments and expresses opinions without adequate knowledge of the facts” and her “writing abounds with meaningless phrases.

Iraq War Plan v.200.06.12! Yeah, re-arrange the deck chairs on the Titanic guys, that'll solve the problem! :eyes:

"Yesterday, Big Brother renamed the "Office of Popular Enlightenment" to the MINISTRY of Popular Enlightenment because PR studies showed that 'Ministry' has a more positive q1-rating with warm and fuzzy feelings generated by it's religious connotations."

More bullshit from Bushevik Totalitarians.

Same lies, new rubric to hide them under.

Besides an admission of failure, this is also a slap at the neocons.

...junior's number will go out of sight, right?