Bremer Calls for Honesty
"Bush is right." Paul Bremer has been misquoted all over everywhere in support of the KerryKrew. He wrote a piece that the NYT actually published to correct the record. Juicy excerpts below:Paul Bremer: I believe it would have been helpful to have had more troops early on to stop the looting that did so much damage to Iraq's already decrepit infrastructure. The military commanders believed we had enough American troops in Iraq and that having a larger American military presence would have been counterproductive because it would have alienated Iraqis. That was a reasonable point of view, and it may have been right. The truth is that we'll never know.
I'm remembering that we would have had more troops in Baghdad during the first weeks of OIF, when the looting took place, but for Turkey changing its mind at the last minute and not allowing the 4th ID to enter Iraq across its borders. Am I completely in left field or is this being ignored by everyone for a reason? Why is W taking the hit on this -- protecting Turkey? Hell, they made their own decision -- live with it.
The press has been curiously reluctant to report my constant public support for the president's strategy in Iraq and his policies to fight terrorism. I have been involved in the war on terrorism for two decades, and in my view no world leader has better understood the stakes in this global war than President Bush. The president was right when he concluded that Saddam Hussein was a menace who needed to be removed from power. He understands that our enemies are not confined to Al Qaeda, and certainly not just to Osama bin Laden, who is probably trapped in his hide-out in Afghanistan. As the bipartisan 9/11 commission reported, there were contacts between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's regime<?b> going back a decade. We will win the war against global terror only by staying on the offensive and confronting terrorists and state sponsors of terror - wherever they are. . Right now, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Qaeda ally, is a dangerous threat. He is in Iraq. President Bush has said that Iraq is the central front in the war on terror. He is right . Mr. Zarqawi's stated goal is to kill Americans, set off a sectarian war in Iraq and defeat democracy there. He is our enemy.
he gets clearer...
Mr. Kerry is free to quote my comments about Iraq. But for the sake of honesty he should also point out that I have repeatedly said, including in all my speeches in recent weeks, that President Bush made a correct and courageous decision to liberate Iraq from Saddam Hussein's brutality, and that the president is correct to see the war in Iraq as a central front in the war on terrorism. [all emph mine-C]
Where is the KerryKrew decrying Bremer as a Bush puppet?
