Bremer Says U.S. Was Short on Troops for Occupation of Iraq
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White House officials today found themselves explaining recent remarks by the former top American administrator in Iraq.
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The former US civilian administrator in Iraq says the United States &quot;paid a big price&quot; for not having enough troops on the ground after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein&#39;s regime.
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However, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates emphasized in two television interviews today that American troops would play an increasingly limited role in Iraq.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair said that the redeployment of 850 crack British troops to a volatile area southwest of Baghdad was &quot;a limited operation for a limited period&quot;.
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WASHINGTON -- The United States didn&#39;t have enough troops in Iraq immediately following the ouster of Saddam Hussein and &quot;paid a big price&quot; for it, the former head of the US occupation there said Monday.
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WASHINGTON: The US did not have enough troops in Iraq to secure the country and paid a heavy price for the mistake, the former head of the US civilian administration in Baghdad has said.
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The US should reduce troop presence in Iraq so as not to appear an "occupying force", a key report says.
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US military staff and their families believe the United States sent too few troops into Iraq and put too great a burden on inexperienced National Guard and reserve forces, even though they support George W. Bush's overall handling of Iraq, a poll showed.
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As President Bush and Gen. David Petraeus struggle to make the case that yet more time is needed for victory in Iraq, the goal for success no longer resembles the high hopes the architects of the 2003 invasion had in mind.
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The decisions by U.S.-led forces in  Iraq to disband Saddam Hussein's army and bar senior Baathists  from government jobs after "we liberated Iraq" were the "right  decisions," Paul Bremer, former U.S. administrator in Iraq,  wrote in the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.
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The top U.S. commander in Iraq complained to the Pentagon last winter that his supply situation was so poor that it threatened Army troops' ability to fight, according to an official document that has surfaced only now.
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Many military officers and civilian officials say the Bush administration's miscalculations in Iraq cost the U.S. valuable momentum.
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The extra troops that Iraq promised to send into Baghdad in a new U.S.-Iraqi military buildup are arriving on schedule but in inadequate numbers, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday.
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WASHINGTON Assertions by L. Paul Bremer 3rd, the former top US administrator in Iraq, that President George W. Bush had not sent enough troops to secure the country have put the White House on the defensive on Iraq policy and prompted Senator John Kerry
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There are too few British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, and they do not have all the equipment they need, increasing the risk they may fail in their missions there, a parliamentary committee report due out Wednesday will warn, The Guardian said.
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The British deputy to the top U.S. commander in Iraq said Tuesday the country's sectarian conflict is not a full-blown civil war but could be described as a "civil war in miniature."
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A day after U.S. President George W. Bush cited enough progress in Iraq to justify a limited troop withdrawal, the White House told Congress on Friday that Iraqi leaders had failed to meet half of their key goals.