In case you want to look at actual evidence of poor planning and how the fiefdoms and personalities of the Bush White House royally screwed up our Iraq plans, The Memory Hole FOIA’d the State Departments plan for an Iraq War. This plan was almost entirely ignored because of contempt held by Rumsfeld and Cheney for the State Department. Excerpts I’ve read in the past seem almost prescient about the war. The State Department (an intelligence analyst group there) was the only intelligence organization to get the WMD estimate right, as well. No wonder the administration ignored them…
(via this site)