But how do you explain why all that planning wasn't done

Page history last edited by myclob 2 yrs ago

George Stephanopoulos: But how do you explain why all that planning wasn't done? President Bush is Harvard MBA, too.

Governor Mitt Romney: Well, everybody has their own management style and their own approach and I respect enormously the approach other people. Mine is just different.

And if you read "Cobra Two" and "Assassins Gate" and "Looming Tower" and some of the reports of the events leading up not only to 9/11, but to the conflict itself, there's a sense that we really weren't ready for the post major conflict period.

We really hadn't thought through the way we should have, in the way we thought through taking over Germany with the collapse of Hitler's government.

We had two years to plan for that. In this case, it was done on a hurried basis. Paul Bremer went in without all of the preparation he might have needed to make some of those critical decisions and, in some cases, decisions were made that I think weren't made as effectively as they should have been.

And that has resulted in a blossoming of the sectarian violence, of insurgents within the country and from without, and a setting which is a very troubled, difficult position.