Plan? We don't need no steenkin' plan.

Comments I've passed up:

Lots of comments have been made recently on the mind-boggling admission by General Pace that there really wasn't a plan for post-war Iraq.

[Marine Corps General Peter] Pace told the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee the Bush administration had put off much of the planning for the aftermath of the war -- launched on March 20 -- out of concern such planning would bring on the conflict.

"We did not want to have planning for the post war make the war inevitable. We did not want to do anything that would prejudge or somehow preordain that there was definitely going to be a war," he said. article

I don' t know what people are questioning. And what in tarnation got into the general to make such a statement in the first place? Hell - go in guns a-blazin' and see what we've got when the smoke settles. That's a plan.

Understatement of the week:

"I believe we are in for a rough winter," said Greenstock, Prime Minister Tony Blair's envoy to Iraq. (Same article)

The phrase most likely to be worn out:

...since Bush declared major combat operations over.

I bet he wishes he'd never heard of the U.S.S. Lincoln. Although, if you're Cowboy Codpiece, and he is, it was probably worth that moment of made-for-TV-movie glory.