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birdwatcherLONDON (Reuters) - Major General Tim Cross said he had talked to former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld before the invasion about the need to have international support and enough troops on the ground to reconstruct Iraq.
Нет уж, спасибо. Еще больше войск нам в Ираке не надо. Если только английских.
"He didn't want to hear that message. The U.S. had already convinced themselves that Iraq would emerge reasonably quickly as a stable democracy," Cross told the Sunday Mirror.
"Anybody who tried to tell them anything that challenged that idea -- they simply shut it out," Cross, the most senior British officer involved in planning post-war Iraq, added.
His comments echoed those of General Mike Jackson, head of the British army during the invasion, who was quoted by The Daily Telegraph on Saturday as describing Rumsfeld's approach as "intellectually bankrupt." Не только intellectually!
Это генерал Тим Кросс:
А это сэр Майк (генерал Майк Джексон):
Нет уж, спасибо. Еще больше войск нам в Ираке не надо. Если только английских.
"He didn't want to hear that message. The U.S. had already convinced themselves that Iraq would emerge reasonably quickly as a stable democracy," Cross told the Sunday Mirror.
"Anybody who tried to tell them anything that challenged that idea -- they simply shut it out," Cross, the most senior British officer involved in planning post-war Iraq, added.
His comments echoed those of General Mike Jackson, head of the British army during the invasion, who was quoted by The Daily Telegraph on Saturday as describing Rumsfeld's approach as "intellectually bankrupt." Не только intellectually!
Это генерал Тим Кросс:
А это сэр Майк (генерал Майк Джексон):
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Date: 2007-09-02 07:28 pm (UTC)Занаучиваете! Пpи бумажных-то деньгах федеpальное банкpотство невозможно по опpеделинию, только инфляция.
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Date: 2007-09-02 07:31 pm (UTC)