Plans A-E (aka Bush flip flopping redux)

Kevin Drum lays out the Iraq timeline and gets it all right. PLAN A was an ideologue's wet dream / regular person's joke. We would be greeted as liberators on a bed of roses, and the Iraqi's long-dormant democratic ideals would spring forth, leading to a wonderous victory for democracy, and no need for an occupation. PLAN B involved Garner/Bremer disbanding the Iraqi army and having the US stay a while. PLAN C came about due to increasing resistance, violence and mismanagement. (Some might say incompetence, but that would be shrill). That involved the handover of "sovereignty", and January 2005 elections. Well, now we're on PLAN D, and it isn't doing any better. By the way - did you know that Zarqawi, the guy beheading all the Westerners in Iraq - could have been taken out before we invaded Iraq, but the Bush administration vetoed that because Zarqawi was part of their theory that al Qaeda was linked to Saddam. Bush doesn't think there's anything wrong in Iraq. Meanwhile, the administration refuses to spend the billions earmarked for Iraqi reconstruction. Why? BECAUSE THEY ADMIT THAT IT'S TOO DANGEROUS.