He claims to still be supporting Bush and that the war was the right thing to do, but the issue of troop levels is raised in a speech yesterday. Frankly I'm sick and tired of people who ought to know and who do have power that fail to use it when it's needed. If he was so much against US policy in Iraq, why the hell did he fail to make it an issue while he was there? Towing the line regardless of the facts and then dipping into the middle afterwards doesn't cut it with me. Bremer sounds like he's trying to position himself closer to the middle on Iraq so he can be a hired gun after the election no matter who wins. What an asshole.
The former U.S. official who governed Iraq after the invasion said yesterday that the United States made two major mistakes: not deploying enough troops in Iraq and then not containing the violence and looting immediately after the ouster of Saddam Hussein.
"We paid a big price for not stopping it because it established an atmosphere of lawlessness," he said yesterday in a speech at an insurance conference in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. "We never had enough troops on the ground."
