Amateur Hour

Robin Raphel, the State Dept. guru for Iraq, has lambasted her own Administration for it's incompetence in the run up to, prosecution of, and aftermath of the War in Iraq.

The war was rushed, she says, due to the pressure of prepping for the upcoming Presidential elections. Going to soon prevented us from building an effective international coalition, which she thinks we could have done given another six months. And the aftermath....

"Soon after the invasion, Raphel said, it became clear that U.S. officials "could not run a country we did not understandÂ…. It was very much amateur hour."

An interesting read in the LATimes.