Bremer: US Lacked Troops
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(CBS) 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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The United States has made a controversial request to Britain to re-deploy some of its troops in Iraq.
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Ambassador Paul Bremer, who ran the US provisional government in Iraq for more than a year, now claims the US military should have had more troops in Iraq to halt the widespread looting after the fall of Baghdad.
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Bush has no plans to add troops in Iraq, but questions persist about whether the US force has been big enough.
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Democratic White House challenger John Kerry accused President Bush of mismanaging the war in Iraq after a former top aide said the U.S. paid the price for not deploying enough troops after last year's invasion.
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The increase in US troop strength in Iraq announced last week is not likely to be enough, Sen. John McCain said Sunday. McCain told &quot;Fox News Sunday&quot; that more troops probably will be required
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A high-level US congressional delegation visiting Iraq called Thursday for between 15,000 and 30,000 more US troops to be sent to bring stability to the war-torn country.
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a Commons statement on proposals to deploy British troops in the American-controlled sector of Iraq. Following a weekend of intense speculation over Government plans to support US forces around Baghdad, Mr
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The Pentagon tries to deflect charges that there were not enough troops on the ground at the time of the Iraq invasion.
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Denying he has painted too rosy a picture of Iraq, President Bush said Thursday he would consider sending more troops if asked, but Iraq's interim leader firmly said they weren't needed. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld suggested parts of Iraq might have to be excluded from elections in January.
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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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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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By July, the number of U.S. troops in Iraq should be down to about 130,000, according to the U.S. commander in Baghdad, Army Gen. David H. Petraeus -- about the same number as before President Bush sent additional combat forces there last spring.
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The former civilian head of the American occupation of Iraq says the United States didn&#39;t have enough troops in Iraq immediately following the ouster of Saddam Hussein -- and &quot;paid a big price&#39;&#39; for it.
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President Bush's campaign, reacting today to a report that the former U.S. official who governed Iraq after the invasion said more troops had been needed to subdue the country,  today acknowledged that L. Paul Bremer had clashed with military leaders over troop levels.
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The US intervention in Iraq was hampered early on by a lack of adequate forces and efforts to contain looting after the ouster of Saddam Hussein, according to the former US administrator in Iraq.
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(CBS/AP) A statement by the former top US civilian official in Iraq that the United States did not have enough troops on the ground following Saddam Hussein&#39;s ouster is throwing new fuel onto the presidential campaign debate over the Bush administration&#39;s