Ah, Punkin'haid don't disappoint, that's fer sher. Watching Press the Meet this morning, and Steven Hadley (R-Neocon Liar) was on blabbing about Iraq. Not having the transcript (and yes, I'll update this when I have it) he said that the situation in Iraq would have been different if they had had 150,000 to 200,000 Iraqi troops to help stablize the security situation after "Mission Accomplished". Of course, Mr. Hadley is from the Department of Rewriting History, Inc. a wholly-owned subsidiary of the 1600 Crew. What part of His Imperial Demi-Godness Jerry Bremer's ill-advised order dissolving the Iraqi Army with the blessing and encouragement of every Neocon from Beloved Leader to Doug Feith does he not remember?
Timmeh did not challenge the assertion that the the "Iraqi Army just melted away".
Timmeh is an idiot, shill and deserves the scorn of left blogtopia. And he proved why once again. Nice one, Timmeh. Soft Balls, much?
MR. HADLEY: He's, he's acknowledged that, that in terms of troops we need to be building Iraqi forces to provide greater security. You know, Tim, people forget that, that we had hoped to have 150,000 to 200,000 Iraqi army forces to help in the security proposition, and those forces melted away at the close of the war. ...
As American forces advanced, regular Iraqi soldiers abandoned their arms and ran away in droves. Yet in one of his first orders as the American overseer of Iraq, L. Paul Bremer disbanded the entire Iraqi army.
Bremer's order deprived U.S. commanders of men they'd planned to recall to help keep order and secure Iraq's borders. It compounded the problems created by the Bush administration's failure to plan for securing Iraq and its mistaken estimate of how many American troops it would take to do that. It threw legions of angry, defeated Iraqis out of work, handed the budding anti-U.S. insurgency a recruiting windfall and fueled suspicions that America had come not to liberate Iraq, but to seize its oil.
The May 23, 2003, order was one of a succession of postwar American blunders that squandered a spectacular military victory and plunged the United States into a grinding guerrilla war at the head of the Persian Gulf and in the heart of the Islamic world.
To maintain otherwise is not just revision of the worst sort, it does a grave injustice to the men and women of the military who have been paying with their lives as you sit there and lie through your teeth about the events that transpired in your misguided war of choice.
Reportering is sooo hard, Timmeh. I know that's why no follow-up to such an obvious revisionist lie was forthcoming. Especially with your tongue so firmly in Hadley's ass.
