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Van de tweede Britse het algemene beleid aanvallenV.S. Irak
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Tweede algemeen heeft uit de houding tegen van de V.S.' ten opzichte van naoorlogs Irak gesproken, dat verschillen tussen de Amerikaanse en Britse meningen over de oorlog verhoogt.
Belangrijke Algemene Mike Cross voegde gisteren aan commentaren toe door het hoofd van het Britse Leger tijdens de invasie van Irak, de Algemene Heer Mike Jackson, die de oorlogsarchitect Donald Rumsfeld van de V.S. zoals hebbend een „intellectueel failliete“ benadering van de oorlog beschuldigde.
In comments to the Sunday Mirror newspaper, Maj Gen Cross said it was clear before the 2003 invasion that American leaders were certain that the Middle Eastern country would make a swift transition to stability.
“The US had already convinced themselves that Iraq would emerge reasonably quickly as a stable democracy,” the senior British planner for post-war Iraq was quoted as saying.
“Anybody who tried to tell them anything that challenged that idea - they simply shut it out.”
Maj Gen Jackson said Mr Rumsfeld “ignored” and “dismissed” his expressions of concern, adding that “with hindsight” he believed the US post-Saddam plan for Iraq was “fatally flawed”.
His comments echo those of Gen Jackson, who yesterday told the Telegraph newspaper that the American expectation of a warm welcome for the coalition forces was “an ideological article of faith” among planners.
He claimed that it had been assumed that the displacement of the dictator meant that “a model democratic society would inevitably emerge”.
Gen Jackson also criticised US foreign policy’s reliance on military force, revealed his doubts about the claims on Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction and said the work of the US state department had been wasted because of a lack of interest from Mr Bush.
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