Military Chiefs: Post-War Plan Lacking

United Press International says:

• WASHINGTON - The Bush Administration did not adequately prepare for the post-war period in Iraq, the nation's top military officers told Congress Wednesday.

  The four chiefs of the armed services testified to the House Armed Services Committee that while they had adequately planned for combat operations, as evidenced by the quick advance to Baghdad, the U.S. government as a whole failed to put enough effort into planning for the peace.

  The military role is limited, or should be limited, in post-combat periods to security operations, they said. The lion's share of reconstruction and nation building should have been taken up by other agencies in the government.

I have no idea what the pre-war plans were at the upper levels, but I am fairly sure that building schools and repairing water pipes are not at the heart of military training. Militaries are designed to kill people and to break things.

And whatever happened to all that Iraqi oil money that was going to be used to fund the reconstruction effort?