Rumsfeld's Selective Memory on Coalitions and Leadership

The world according to Rummy:  http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/03/23/rumsfeld-libya-coalition-might-be-trouble

Rumsfeld's memory is flawed and selective.

1. Yes, Bush 2's coalition was suited to the Dubya-Dickie task of invading Iraq and ending all vestiges of Saddam's regime. That was because other potential allies wouldn't touch it with a ten mile pole. So it was the USA and Blair's UK and some other anglo-Brits and some insignificant forces and that was it. A coalition by default, enhanced by bribes in the form of foreign aid, that proceeded despite the UN's refusal to authorize invasion.

2. Rummy is one to be talking about advance planning considering the disaster he helped inflict in Iraq. And he actually wanted to invade with a smaller force than was used! And there was NO relevant planning on how to maintain control and to establish order in Iraq. Short term military objectives were achieved stunningly; everything else, the harder task, was chaos.

3. Rummy is as wrong in his pesudo-memory about the influence of Saddam's capture on Khadaffi as Hillary was in her memory about stepping off an airplane into a war zone. Ghadaffi was an ally and informer for the West before the Iraq invasion. Qadaffy started turning in the 1990s and the UN removed sanctions against Libya in 2003, before Saddam was captured. Totally bogus and self serving memory.