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I would agree with everything you say had the aide came out and said that the content of his remarks was twisted by the media. Instead the aide came out and more or less gave a "Oops you weren't supposed to hear that" statement. The aide was more concerned with the privacy issue than the content issue.

Well, he stands by the content issue. Read the NYT article that Bremmer wrote.

He is saying basically... yeah, sure I wanted more troops, but I know I wasn't the one making that call and the commanders had valid reasons for keeping a small footprint. We'll never know what would have been "perfect".

Bush himself said that we made some "miscalculations". I took that to mean getting a hold of the initial looting. Of course, the MSM jumped on the miscalculations remark like it was an admission of COMPLETE AND TOTAL FAILIURE in Iraq...

...so the president has learned he can't trust the press. Bremmer knew the same thing, and that is why "you weren't supposed to hear that". Not because he doesn't stand by it, but because he knew it would be twisted, mangled and politicized.

He supports Bush and his policy in Iraq.