Iraq War Plan Assumed Only 5,000 U.S. Troops Still There by December 2006!

If there was any doubt of the monumental cock-up the Iraq war has become, this these power-point slides obtained under a Freedom of Information request says it all...

The U.S. Central Command's war plan for invading Iraq postulated in August 2002 that the U.S. would have only 5,000 troops left in Iraq as of December 2006, according to the Command's PowerPoint briefing slides, which were obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and are posted on the Web today by the National Security Archive (www.nsarchive.org).