Bush's plan for Iraq

Juan Cole reports this morning that the Bush administration planed to hand Iraq over to Iranian spy Ahmad Chalabi within six months.

I have it from insiders that in April, 2003, Jay Garner let it slip to some of his staff that his charge was to turn Iraq over to Ahmad Chalabi within six months. The staffers were shocked and some contacted the State Department to see if this was known there. It was not. So they blew the whistle on Bush with Colin Powell. I was told that Powell then made a coalition with Tony Blair and that the two of them went to Bush and got him to change his mind.

So Bush did have a plan, a really stupid one that Tony Blair had to talk him out of.