"They believe they have found the perfect model, and it works," a defense analyst said of the updated war plan.
Ahmad Chalabi has now given the Bush Administration an updated war plan, which calls not only for bombing but for the deployment of thousands of American Special Forces troops.
A half-century later, Noam Chomsky is still writing with the same chilling eloquence about the updated war-on-terror version of this American nightmare.
"Welcome to the Policy Update War Room," she said.
Update: war built from qa-to-prod-delegation branch is now deployed to cas-p2/p3/p7 (auth) with default theme set to "default" the OS and JVMs also patched on those hosts, the CAS prod tier.
It's like what George Lucas said about updating Star Wars: you want it to be as you remember not as it actually was.
Woodward's theory is that when Bush privately instructed Rumsfeld to update existing war plans for Iraq, on November 21 , 2001 it set things inexorably in motion.
In his testimony, Mr. Rumsfeld told commission members that he considered Al Qaeda a serious threat before Sept. 11, and that he had been taking steps to prepare the military to combat terrorism, steps like revamping the armed forces into a more mobile, lethal force, and ordering commanders worldwide to update their war plans to be more flexible.
They updated actual war plans, Kenney's study group working on War Plan Orange.
[Note on Further Reading: For a fascinating, if underappreciated history of American dreams about ultimate weapons leading to world peace, don't miss Bruce Franklin's remarkable little book (reissued in 2008 in an updated edition), War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination. On drones, the piece to read is Jane Mayer's recent "The Predator War" in the New Yorker.
