However, Thursday's hearing is unlikely to stop complaints that planning for the occupation of Iraq was skimpy -- or that reconstruction plans that were drafted by government agencies and private groups have been ignored by the Pentagon.
The State Department was engaged for the last year in a "future of Iraq" project that drew on Iraqi exiles to draft plans for the transition to a democratic Iraq. One project was unveiled Wednesday at the congressionally chartered U.S. Institute of Peace, where a group of Iraqi jurists presented English and Arabic copies of a 3-inch-thick report on transitional justice in post-Hussein Iraq.
