The Washington Post has an article outlining how more than 100 House Democrats warned President Bush about potential problems in waging a war in Iraq months before it started.
Walter Pincus notes that many of those Democrats are now in key committee positions, including Missouri's Rep. Ike Skelton.
"The incoming Armed Services chairman, Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.), spoke in support of Spratt's amendment, stressing the need for 'a plan for rebuilding of the Iraqi government and society, if the worst comes to pass and armed conflict is necessary.'" Pincus writes.
"Skelton had written Bush a month earlier, after a White House meeting, to say that 'I have no doubt that our military would decisively defeat Iraq's forces and remove Saddam. But like the proverbial dog chasing the car down the road, we must consider what we would do after we caught it.'"
"Skelton went on to note the 'extreme difficulty of occupying Iraq with its history of autocratic rule, its balkanized ethnic tensions and its isolated economic system.' He also warned that Bush's postwar strategy must 'take seriously' the possibility that a replacement regime 'might be rejected by the Iraqi people, leading to civil unrest and even anarchy.'"
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