Bremer admits Bush failed on "top priority" in Iraq

Mr. Bremer, in an attempt to COVER HIS ASS in today's NYT, unfortunately just bitch slapped the president again. No turkee for Bremer after this.

What Bremer did was attempt to write an op ed explaining that he wasn't REALLY criticizing Bush when he said the administration didn't send enough troops to Iraq and that's why the insurgency is out of control. What Bremer meant to say, he now writes, is this:

But during the 14 months I was in Iraq, the administration, the military and I all agreed that the coalition's top priority was a broad, sustained effort to train Iraqis to take more responsibility for their own security. This effort, financed in large measure by the emergency supplemental budget approved by Congress last year, continues today. In the end, Iraq's security must depend on Iraqis.

Ah, so everyone now agrees that the top do-or-die priority in Iraq for THE ENTIRE OCCUPATION was training new Iraqi security forces. You mean the 200,000, I mean 100,000, I mean 50,000, I mean meager 8,000 security forces that the Bush administration has trained in the past 18 months? So that was our top priority, and Bush screwed it up utterly and completely?

Thanks Mr. Bremer for clarifying that point.