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Title: Powell Says He Advised Bush to Invade Iraq With a Larger Force
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Bloomberg
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Published: Apr 30, 2006
Author: Bloomberg
Post Date: 2006-04-30 13:07:31 by Brian S
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April 30 (Bloomberg) -- Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said he urged President George W. Bush to deploy a greater numbers of troops for the 2003 invasion of Iraq than advocated by the Pentagon. ``I made the case to General (Tommy) Franks and Secretary (Donald) Rumsfeld before the President that I wasn't sure we had enough troops,'' Powell said in an interview with Britain's ITV television network broadcast today. ``The President's military advisers felt that the size of the force was adequate. They may still feel that years later. Some of us don't. I don't.'' Powell said that generals and other Department of Defense advisers were ``anticipating a different kind of aftermath'' to the Iraq war. A confidential memo written on Jan. 31, 2003, by David Manning, then a top U.K. foreign policy adviser, said Bush and U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair expected a quick victory and a complicated but manageable transition to a new Iraqi government, the New York Times reported on March 27. Condoleezza Rice, Powell's successor as secretary of state, today defended the decision on Iraq troops levels, saying on ABC's ``This Week'' program in Washington that they were determined by the military commanders most closely involved in the planning. Powell previously has expressed second thoughts about the Iraq war. In an interview last September with ABC News, Powell called his presentation to the United Nations before the war, in which he argued Iraq posed an imminent threat, a ``blot'' on his record. The assertions about Iraq's possession of chemical and biological weapons later turned out to be false.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
If Powell had any integrity and decency or common sense he would have advised bushwhacko NOT to invade Iraq. I have lost all respect for powell...what a total dufuss/loser!
Gee Colin. Life sucks when nobody listens to ya. Do you mean more troops would have changed the moral and military dynamics? I don't.
#2. To: Brian S (#0)
`I made the case to General (Tommy) Franks and Secretary (Donald) Rumsfeld before the President that I wasn't sure we had enough troops,'' Powell said in an interview
#3. To: Brian S (#0)
the iraq debacle was from the beginning, based on fantasy on a level that A.Hitler would have appreciated in his bunker, 1945..dithering with shadow forces & non-existent divisions.
"That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves." Kim Stanley Robinson, "Green Mars" p318
#4. To: Brian S (#0)
'a blot'?? ROFL!
Powell called his presentation to the United Nations before the war, in which he argued Iraq posed an imminent threat, a ``blot'' on his record.
"The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion." Frederick Douglass
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