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Bremner: Not enough troops sent to Iraq!

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Jan 9, 2004
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White House Refuses to Say Whether Bremer Asked President for More Troops for Iraq
Oh dear... "No Paul. All we want is the oil secured....No, I don't give a fvck about the civilians...uprising?...No, no you misunderstand - we want the country in chaos, that way we can make the people out to be crazy backwards ragheads....No, the 'War on Terror', we're calling it remember?.....Yes, Yes, I know that....No, Kill as many as you like. Just keep it quiet!"
The White House refused to say Tuesday whether the top U.S. civilian official in Iraq after Saddam Hussein's ouster had asked the president for more troops to deal with the rapid descent of postwar Iraq into chaos.
In remarks published Tuesday, the official, L. Paul Bremer, said he arrived in Iraq on May 6, 2003 to find "horrid" looting and a very unstable situation throwing new fuel onto the presidential campaign issue of whether the United States had sufficiently planned for the post-war situation in Iraq.
We paid a big price for not stopping it because it established an atmosphere of lawlessness," Bremer said during an address to an insurance group in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. The group released a summary of his remarks in Washington.

"We never had enough troops on the ground," Bremer said, while insisting that he was "more convinced than ever that regime change was the right thing to do."

White House spokesman Scott McClellan refused to say whether Bremer had pleaded with Bush for more troops. "We never get into reading out all the conversations they had," McClellan said.

Kerry said Tuesday that Vice President Dick Cheney should acknowledge mistakes made in Iraq, pointing to remarks by Bremer that more troops had been needed in the aftermath of war.

"I hope tonight Mr. Cheney can acknowledge those mistakes," the Democratic presidential candidate said, referring to the debate between the vice president and Kerry's running mate Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C. "I hope Mr. Cheney can take responsibility."
"I hope tonight Mr. Cheney can bend over and stretch his asssole open wide"