More on Administration Incompetence

Meet the Press has an interview with Michael Gordon, co-author of Cobra II. This clip references a classic example of administration incompetence in planning for post-war Iraq. In 2003, Rumsfeld sets out a memo calling for the creation of the New Iraqi Corps, a body out to be the foundation of a self-sustaining government. What was not considered was that the acronym, pronounced in Arabic, sounds awfully close to the f-word. Oops.

Reminds me of the story of the Chevy Nova. Chevy couldn't figure out why they couldn't move their Novas in Latin America, until someone pointed out that nova means "doesn't go" in Spanish.