] In remarks published Tuesday, the official, L. Paul
] Bremer, said he arrived in Iraq on May 6, 2003 to find
] "horrid" looting and a very unstable situation %u2014
] throwing new fuel onto the presidential campaign issue of
] whether the United States had sufficiently planned for
] the post-war situation in Iraq.
]
]
] "We paid a big price for not stopping it because it
] established an atmosphere of lawlessness," Bremer said
] during an address to an insurance group in White Sulphur
] Springs, W.Va. The group released a summary of his
] remarks in Washington.
]
]
] "We never had enough troops on the ground," Bremer said,
] while insisting that he was "more convinced than ever
] that regime change was the right thing to do."

Now I'm no fan of Saddam, but let's be real, if what you're looking at as a replacement is worse, you don't take that course of action. If we weren't there right now as someone for the various factions to rally against, Iraq would likely be in the midst of a full blown civil war. As it is, it's a police action that's getting uglier daily. If we'd gone in with more guys, it may have been better. If we'd found a way to eliminate him without invasion, it may have been better. This is likely the worst of all worlds.

And since it's in the same acrticle...

"There are clearly ties between Saddam Hussein's regime and al-Qaida," McClellan said. "There (were) clearly some disturbing similarities that existed as well."

"We know there were senior-level contacts between the regime and al-Qaida — the 9/11 commission documented that," McClellan said.

In fact, the 9/11 report said that while there were "friendly contacts" between Iraq and al-Qaida and a common hatred of the United States, none of these contacts "ever developed into a collaborative relationship."

By the rationale the White House is giving us, they could make the same argument that Time Magazine, which has managed to get an Al-Qaida interview here and there is also linked.

Please go out and vote next month and help see that these dolts aren't running the country.

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