Bremer: US had too few troops in Iraq
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Lack of control after invasion allowed lawlessness to take root, former head of occupation says. By Robin Wright and Thomas E. Ricks.
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The U.S. commander of a new offensive north of Baghdad, reclaiming insurgent territory day by day, said Sunday his Iraqi partners may be too weak to hold onto the gains. The Iraqi military does not even have enough ammunition, said Brig. Gen. Mick Bednarek: "They're not quite up to the job yet."
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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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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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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates backed away slightly yesterday from his Friday statement that U.S. troop levels in Iraq could go as low as 100,000 by the end of next year, and he signaled that the Bush administration would go into a wait-and-see mode on Iraq for another six months.
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America&#39;s top arms inspector says there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and that Iraq lacked the ability to make them for years.
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The number of U.S. troops in Iraq could fall to about 130,000 by next summer, the total before this year's build-up, but it is too early to say when it may go lower, the top U.S. general in Iraq said on Monday.
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Most Iraqis think the recent US troop surge has failed, a new BBC/ABC opinion poll across Iraq suggests.
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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
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Gen. George W. Casey Jr. said that Baghdad could be stabilized with far fewer additional troops than President Bush is sending.
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The United States did not have enough troops in Iraq after ousting Saddam Hussein and "paid a big price" for it, says the former head of the U.S. occupation there.
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There is &quot;no way&quot; the war in Iraq can be won by the United States and its allies, a former Army commander said Friday as he called for the troops to be withdrawn.
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In 2002, the U.S. military predicted that by now a broadly representative government would be in place and as few as 5,000 U.S. troops would be in Iraq.
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The former US high-ranking official in Iraq has said that the United States failed to deploy enough troops in the country and curb the violence and looting soon after the ouster of Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi president.
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The United States invaded Iraq  without a formal plan for occupying and stabilizing the country  and this continues to undercut the military effort there, the  Washington Post on Saturday quoted a U.S. Army historian as  saying.
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Robert M. Gates testified that the U.S. was not winning in Iraq and that failure could ignite ÃÂa regional conflagration.ÃÂ
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The commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, said on Monday that U.S. troop levels in the country would decline further after a drawdown next summer but it was too soon to say how quickly.