Tuesday, November 18, 2008

This sounds very familiar!

From the same article noted below (Paulson Says U.S. Has Turned The Corner In Stabilizing Financial System):
"There is no playbook for responding to turmoil we have never faced," Paulson said in prepared remarks before the House Financial Services Committee.
This has an eerily familiar ring to it. Oh, yeah!
Administration fends off demands for war estimates
Monday, March 3, 2003
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The number of U.S. troops that would be required to administer Iraq after a U.S.-led military campaign is "not knowable" because of the large number of variables in how a conflict might unfold, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday.

He also said it "makes no sense to try" to come up with cost estimates for a war in Iraq because the variables "create a range that simply isn't useful."
"There is no playbook" - that pretty much sums up the planning for W's Iraq misadventure, too! - We don't know, so we can't plan. These guys are the best & the brightest???

Stop the madness!

p.s. ... and, SecTreas Paulson, not that it's my place to tell you your job, but: isn't it a reasonable expectation that your top priority over the past 2 months ought to have been drafting a playbook???
This calls to mind a time-worn biz adage: "If there’s no time to do it right the first time, when will you find the time to do things over?"

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