"In March 2003, days before the start of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, American war planners and intelligence officials met at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina to review the Bush administration's plans to oust Saddam Hussein and implant democracy in Iraq.

Near the end of his presentation, an Army lieutenant colonel who was giving a briefing showed a slide describing the Pentagon's plans for rebuilding Iraq after the war, known in the planners' parlance as Phase 4-C. He was uncomfortable with his material - and for good reason.

The slide said: 'To Be Provided.'"

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"'The possibility of the United States winning the war and losing the peace in Iraq is real and serious,' warned an Army War College report that was completed in February 2003, a month before the invasion. Without an 'overwhelming' effort to prepare for the U.S. occupation of Iraq, the report warned: 'The United States may find itself in a radically different world over the next few years, a world in which the threat of Saddam Hussein seems like a pale shadow of new problems of America's own making.'"