[SmithL]

Anything to sell a book, I guess.

[Txsleuth]

I got the impression that Bremer returned from Iraq with his tail between his legs....

But, I guess like other EX-Bush Administration employees...he will seek to capitalize on the over abundance of ANTI-BUSH sentiment in America today..

[pissant]

It may have caught Bremer by suprise, but I remember more than a few freepers and several key military leaders expound on the venus fly trap theory for this being the jihadis last stand. I know I hope they keep coming and dying there.

[My2Cents]

The U.S. intelligence focus on Iraq's nonexistent weapons of mass destruction

They mean hidden WMDs, relocated WMDs, hastely destroyed WMDs.

[Boundless]

"What really caught us by surprise was its intensity"

The transformation of Iraq has gone much as I expected,
perhaps less intense. The only thing surprising was the
total treason of the Democrats and the intensity of the
propaganda in the Legacy Media.

Iraq could easy still balkanize after we leave. Having
some reason to stay (Iran) would be stabilizing.

[Political Junkie Too]

The U.S. intelligence focus on Iraq's nonexistent weapons of mass destruction may have contributed to the Bush administration's failure to anticipate the insurgency that followed the U.S. invasion, former Iraq administrator L. Paul Bremer said Tuesday.

And it should have!

Monday morning quarterbacking is one thing, but betting with nuclear or biological weapons is quite another thing.

I think it was right for us to leave no stone (or grain of sand) unturned in a country where their entire air force was buried in sand dunes.

To suggest that we were obsessed with WMDs or otherwise ignored (or allowed to grow) insurgencies because of chasing the White Whale of WMDs in a country where WMDs were used against their own people is revising history, in my opinion.

-PJ

[TheCrusader]

"Anything to sell a book, I guess"

Bremmer seems to be saying that if President Bush had put him in charge of every aspect of the war then we'd have won two years ago, no troops would have died, and the Iraqis would now be enjoying full democracy, peace and eternal bliss. Bremmer's just another buffoon, madly in love with himself and selling our country out for the almighty dollar.

[MadJack]

I guess Bremer figures the only people buying books these days are those screaming "Bush lied."
Bremer missed the boat completely on the subject of insurgency/resistance/guerilla war or whatever else you want to call it. But he wasn't alone. I worked an exercise prepping a certain European-based Army corps for the invasion. We wanted to show guerilla-type resistance, but they had little interest in anything beyond heavy metal contact and running through the Karbala Gap. Maybe some folks in the military knew what to expect, but they apparently didn't get much say.

[Mo1]

"I suppose an argument would be that the intelligence resources were almost entirely devoted to WMD and not to this question of the insurgency," he said.

I suppose ???

Sounds like he is guessing

[Semper Paratus]

If Turkey hadn't renegged on allowing our Army to deploy on their border we would have moved into the Sunni Traingle a lot faster not allowing the nascent insurgency to gain a foothold.

[MikefromOhio]

Don't be an ass Bremer, YOU were looking for WMDs and the military was telling you something was coming....

what a jackhole....