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Carter Wrenn posted on March 06, 2006 13:33
Here’s a point of view on the War in Iraq that is being, unfortunately, ignored.
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, in a commentary in the News and Observer today (3-6-06), argues that our problems in Iraq are a result of “President Bush’s decision to approach the Iraq invasion with the Rumsfeld Doctrine, which calls for just enough troops to fail, rather then the proven Powell Doctrine, which calls for overwhelming force to win.”
Mr. Friedman writes that the Bush administration’s “repeated claim” that it had enough troops in Iraq and no one was asking for more – is “Totally untrue.” He goes on to state that Paul Bremer, who led the U.S. civilian administration in Iraq, reveals in his new book, My Year in Iraq, that “he repeatedly asked for more troops, but was ignored.”
According to Mr. Friedman, Bremer reveals that he told Condoleezza Rice in 2003, “The coalitions got about half the number of soldiers we need here, and we run a real risk of having this thing go south on us.” And that Mr. Bremer also states in his book, “On May 18, [2004] I gave Rice a heads-up that I intended to send Secretary Rumsfeld a very private message suggesting the coalition needed more troops. That afternoon I sent my message. I noted the deterioration of the security situation since April had made it clear, to me at least, that we were trying to cover too many fronts with too few resources.” Bremer concludes, “I did not hear back from him [Rumsfeld].”
This is the debate we need to have – and are not having – about Iraq in this year’s elections. Right now, the Democrats are arguing we are fighting the wrong war. The Bush administration is arguing we are fighting the right war and should stay the course. But no one – yet – is debating Mr. Friedman’s point that the real problem is we have fought this war the wrong way. With the Rumsfeld doctrine, not the Powell Doctrine.
Thursday, March 30, 2006 11:15 AM
7 Comments » Clearly this administration was messed up from day one. Colin Powell should have been Sec. of Defense - not Rumsfeld. Comment by Abe — March 6, 2006 @ 3:33 pm I’m not sure more troops would have helped, except for controlling looters and securing some ammo dumps. Even so, to do all that in a comprehensive fashion (which is the only way the critics would have been satisfied) would have required far more troops than we could possibly have put on the ground. And even with that, I think we still would have the ongoing divisions in Iraqi society, and the problem of jihadist infiltration. Mr. Bremmer’s views certainly ought to be given some credence, but I’m not sure he’s the right guy to take military advice from. Colin Powell is no longer part of the administration; if he feels the troop levels were too low, I believe he would say so now. Comment by Jim Stegall — March 6, 2006 @ 4:25 pm What is needed in Iraq is three separate states, one for the Kurds, one for the Sunnis and one for the Shiites. One point that Carter missed in Friedman’s article is that the Iraqi people have never played very well in the sandbox together and more than likely never will. There are some deep-rooted cultural differences among them, and W’s democracy doctrine is not going to fix it. Comment by CJH — March 6, 2006 @ 5:40 pm Weather or not you think the war was a good idea, it is hard to argue that the Admistration has managaed it competently. That goes pretty much for everything else they have tried to do, ripe with crony’s, corruption, and incompetence. Comment by WhalerCane — March 6, 2006 @ 5:58 pm There have been plenty of mistakes in this war. To find a more poorly planned, poorly managed effort, you’d have to go back to 1864. In the summer of that year the Republican president was called a liar and an incompetent bumbler; a large part of the population complained that the administration had changed the reason for the war; and the Democrats nominated a candidate who had declared the war a failure and wanted to stop fighting and negotiate. Good thing we threw in the towel then, right? Comment by Jim Stegall — March 6, 2006 @ 9:38 pm Say, whatever happened to that civil war in Iraq? The one all the newspapers were reporting on so breathlessly a few weeks back? Guess it’s gone the way of the WMDs. Comment by Jim Stegall — March 12, 2006 @ 4:18 pm Oh wait, my bad. It can’t be in the same category as those, the media are still reporting about their absence. Comment by Jim Stegall — March 12, 2006 @ 4:21 pm
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