Operation Big Rock Candy Mountain

Paul Wolfowitz fesses up on why Iraq isn't going so well: "We had a plan that assumed we'd have basically more stable security conditions than we've encountered."

Among those assumptions: That Iraq was a magical country, where lollipops grew on trees and the clouds were made of marshmallows! With gumdrop mountains and fruit-punch rivers and houses made of gingerbread!

Basically, they used the invasion plans for Candyland.

 U.S. Faces Growing Fears of Failure [WP]