Documents Show 'Serious' Gaps In Post-War Plans
TheNewMexicoChannel.com - News - Documents Show 'Serious' Gaps In Post-War Plans: "August 17, 2005
WASHINGTON -- According to newly declassified documents, the State Department warned U.S. Central Command before the invasion of Iraq of 'serious planning gaps' for postwar security.
In a memo dated one month before the beginning of the Iraq war, State Department officials also wrote that 'a failure to address short-term public security and humanitarian assistance concerns could result in serious human rights abuses.'
The memo suggested such failures could 'undermine' a successful military campaign and hurt the nation's reputation."
