Bremer & Powell come clean on the lies

More Rats scurrying from the ship "We're constantly reviewing their [the troops] needs. Troop strength now and in the future is determined by the situation on the ground. If additional forces are needed, I will send them". - Bush lying to the American public on 4/13/04 George Bush has made that statement numerous times and now we find out he was lying the whole time. L. Paul Bremer and Colin Powell have now come forward and admitted that Bush was lying and in fact, Bremer asked him personally to increase troop strength to 500,000 troops and Bush's reply? He'd try to get international troops to go to Iraq. All the Bush apologists are running out of excuses. They've always made their derogatory comments about the United Nations' troops and who was it that Bush was trying to get to relieve our troops? Instead of giving our leaders on the ground in Iraq the troops they needed, he refused to do it. And, what has it cost this country? Twenty-two hundred+ men and women and over $300 billion to date. Bush needs to tried for his lying and his war crimes and hopefully after the Democrats take over the Congress in November that justice will be served.

Bremer: Request for More Troops Was Ignored L. Paul Bremer III, who led the U.S. civilian occupation authority in Iraq after the 2003 invasion, said he had urged President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to increase postwar troop strength in the country, but his pleas were ignored. In an interview on NBC Television broadcast Sunday night, Bremer said he sent a memo to Rumsfeld suggesting that half a million soldiers would be needed, three times the number deployed by the Bush administration. "I never had any reaction from him," the former diplomat told NBC's Brian Williams on "Dateline." Although he never heard back from his direct boss, Bremer said he discussed his concerns with Bush, who told him he would seek troops from other countries, but did not mention increasing U.S. forces. Bremer thought the Pentagon painted a false picture of the capability of the Iraqi force that would take over when the Americans departed. "I raised my concerns about the numbers and quality of these [Iraqi] forces — really right from the beginning," he said. Asked why he did not go public with his concerns, Bremer defended what he considered his obligation to "tell the president what you think ... in private, through the appropriate channels, as I tried to do." Bremer's remarks echoed those he made in a 2004 speech, in which he said, "We never had enough troops on the ground" after the fall of Baghdad.

Powell admits errors in war He says lack of troops impeded U.S. success "The mistake in Iraq was not that the U.S. invaded, he said. It was that "we didn't have enough troops to take control on the ground" and didn't immediately impose martial law in order to protect the various ministries and infrastructure throughout Iraq".

Well, of course Powell is dead wrong about it not being a mistake to invade Iraq and everyone knows that. The fact that he does not have the integrity to admit it is not a surprise though. After all, Colin Powell was once a very admired man by a huge majority of the country and he'll never get that back because he allowed himself to be duped by the administration and because of him and those in the administration this country has lost so much.