Bureaucrat Man!
Baghdad Anarchy Spurs Call For Help
Iraqis, U.S. Officials Want More Troops
BAGHDAD, May 12 -- Baghdad residents and U.S. officials said today that U.S. occupation forces are insufficient to maintain order in the Iraqi capital and called for reinforcements to calm a wave of violence that has unfurled over the city, undermining relief and reconstruction efforts and inspiring anxiety about the future.
The calls for more U.S. troops to police the city coincided with the arrival of L. Paul Bremer III, the Bush administration's new civilian administrator assigned to run the Pentagon's Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance.
Unless we don't need to let those lessons soak in because the chaos is all part of the plan.
The first thing that crossed my mind when I saw Bremer's picture:
It IS 100 degrees in the shade over there ... time to lose the black suit and tie. Nice underwear!
Shinseki was right and Wolfowitz and Rummy were wrong. I only wish the neocons would accept that they can't occupy a country with air power. It sucks for the people who live there. Rumsfeld, it seems, is only a self proclaimed military genuis after all.
I'm glad we are taking the time to let all these lessons soak in before we start threatening other countries.