Bush to Bremer - Don't worry about it
Everyday more and more becomes public knowledge about Iraq . The CIA, in response to a request from VP Dick Cheney, undercuts the rational of Bush and Cheney that there was a conection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida. This is a separate conclusion from the 9/11 Commission. Today reports were released that Former Ambassador L. Paul Bremer acknowledged that we did not have enough troops in Iraq and that he told President Bush we needed more troops. On Monday night Ambassador Bremer addressing a group in Sulpher Springs, W. Va said, When he arrived in Iraq May 6, 2003 he found "horrid" looting and a very unstable situation. "We paid a big price for not stopping it because it establish an atmosphere of lawlessness" " We never had enough troops on the ground" Bremer said. He also said that he pleaded for more troops with President Bush. When the White House was asked about this, Scott McClellan would not confirm that Ambassador Bremer had ask Bush for more troops.
President Bush has told Congress and the American People that if he had been asked for more troops they would have been provided. We now have the chief US Administrator in Iraq telling us that was a lie. We now have President Bush failing to take the advice in the planning stage as to the troops required when the Army CoS told Bush it would take several hundred thousand, "boots on the ground". Now we have information that shows the President failed to provide the forces required when the War was underway and lied to us when he said if more troops were required they would have been provided. This is the "strong Leadership" we are asked to return to the White House as the Commander-in-Chief for another four years.
It will be interesting to see how President Bush and his "SPIN DOCTORS" try and dicredit, Ambassador Bremer, the man in charge during the Iraq War!