Sounds like Newit is trying to play both sides of the fence
Wrong. What he said was Iraq should have been handled more like Afghanistan, where we put locals up front and in charge from the beginning. Paul Bremmer took a different tact in Iraq by not immediately putting Iraqis in charge and this allowed the insurgency to grow because we appeared to be an occupying force, rather than a liberating force. Read the entire speech. It's really pretty clear what he said.