Inadvertent Assistance (Bush approved plan to keep the Iraqi Army, but Bremer overturned it)

NY Times ^ | April 23 2006

[jmc1969]

Michael R. Gordon reports on disagreements within the U.S. command about the Iraqi military threat.

[jmc1969]

Interesting Video. The origional plan was to keep the Iraqi Army and retrain the Iraqi Army which was what Abazaid and the military wanted to do and it was the plan President Bush signed off on, but Bremer stepped in and over turned the plan on his own.

[jmc1969]

We didn't need 300,000 troops to police Iraq after the fall of Baghdad. What we did need and what we had in our hands was a force that we could use and retrain to be the security force of Iraq. Bremer countermandend the presidents decision and got rid of a security force that could have policed Iraq after the war ended.

For all the attacks on Rummy right now the real mistakes were by in large coming from Bremer.

[jmc1969]

The vid link didn't work, but you can go to the link in question by going to the world section of the videos and looking three pages back in that section and you will see a video entitled "Inadvertent Assistance".

[dixiechick2000]

While I totally agree with your post,
I clicked on your link, and got a video
entitled, "Katrina Evacuees".


Bremer was in error all along the line.

[MJY1288]

I agree 100%

Disbanding the Iraqi Army was the biggest mistake we made, this decision left the Iraqi Military no income and forced them to work for the insurgency

[jmc1969]

Read above

I will try the link again

http://tinyurl.com/m4rb2

[jmc1969]

Huh, they just don't seem to let you select indivisual videos to look at even the second try came up with wrong video.

[jmc1969]

Did you figure out how to find the video though? Its under the world section and under "displaying 25 of 36".

[dixiechick2000]

Thank you for your assistance.


But I still got the Katrina video.

You might want to check it out.

[jmc1969]

I said click on the world icon in the link I gave you and you will come up with a new set of videos.

After you do that go three pages down the video list to "displaying 25 of 36" and you will find the video.

[ZULU]

I never liked Bremer.

[LegendHasIt]

I was under the impression thet President Bush was the President. So, How is it that Bremer could 'overturn' a Presidential decision and keep his job for more than another 12 hours at most?

I mean, Bremer could maybe convince President Bush to change his mind, but only the Legislature and the Supreme Court have the power to actually OVERTURN a decision by the President.

[jmc1969]

There was a seperation of decision making in the first year of the war between the military and Bremer that was very bad for the war effort. The president backed Abazaid's plan and signed off on it, but after Bremer offically banned the Army out of nowhere the President didn't want to chop Bremer and the CPA off at the knees by undoing the decision he and the CPA made and announced publically.