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Retired Gen. Tommy Franks Says U.S. Should Put Iraq On 5-Year Plan: "Franks Talks Candidly In Exclusive Interview With PARADE Magazine About War, Israel, Saddam and Osama NEW YORK, July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Retired Gen. Tommy Franks, who led U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, says he never thought the U.S. could be out of Iraq in a year. Five years, he says, is a realistic timeline. 'It takes time to solve problems when you're talking about 25 to 26 million people,' Franks tells PARADE magazine for this Sunday's issue, noting that Iraq has to dig itself out of a '30-year hole.' Franks, 59, who retired from the military in July 2003, had a lot to say in this exclusive interview with PARADE, his first national interview since leaving command:

* The biggest surprise for him was that they've found no weapons of mass
destruction (WMD), the "reason we went to war." He says multiple
Middle Eastern leaders, including Jordan's King Abdullah and Egypt's
Hosni Mubarak, told Franks that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
In January 2003, Mubarak said point blank to Franks, "Saddam has
WMD-biologicals, actually-and he will use them on your troops."

* Franks and his warplanners expected 150,000 additional international
troops to help with peacekeeping operations. They never materialized.

* Franks singles out White House Counter-terrorism Czar Richard Clarke as
never providing him with "a single page of actionable intelligence" and
of engaging in mostly wishful thinking. Franks also believes the U.S.
invested too much in electronic spy surveillance and not enough in
spies. "We can't send a Princeton-educated New York lawyer to
infiltrate al-Qaeda. To get information, we have to marry the devil or
at least employ him. You have to deal.".......

* Franks was disappointed that the Iraqis initially chose looting and
insurgency over pulling together to rehabilitate their country --
immediately coming out to guard museums, weapons depots, etc.

* Franks openly rebuts and takes issue with the long-standing "Powell
doctrine" of over-whelming military force. Powell criticized Franks'
warplans for Iraq, drawing his ire..........

* Franks believes the world is "far safer" without Saddam Hussein. Asked
about Osama bin Laden, he says that, unlike Saddam, who was hated in
Iraq, tens of thousands of Arab families would happily take Osama in as
their hero. Franks believes Osama will be caught eventually, "even
though we don't have enough sources on the ground.""
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