"Critics say the Bush administration had no plan for postwar Iraq. In fact, before the war, hundreds of Iraqis were involved in discussions with Washington about securing and stabilizing their country after military action," David Phillips writes in the New York Times. Phillips, deputy director of the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations, continues, "Today's difficulties are not the result of a lack of foresight, but rather of poor judgment by civilians at the Pentagon who counted too much on the advice of one exile -- Ahmad Chalabi [3] of the Iraqi National Congress [4] -- and ignored the views of other, more reliable Iraqi leaders."