Bush, officials pass buck over who ordered Iraq army disbanded (or games war criminals like to play)

[ProSense]

Bush, officials pass buck over who ordered Iraq army disbanded

by Sig Christenson 1 hour, 24 minutes ago

SAN ANTONIO, United States (AFP) - As General David Petraeus prepares to tell Congress that a troop surge has helped tamp down Iraq's civil war, Washington is in buck-passing mode over who made the decision many say is at the root of the instability: disbanding the Iraqi army.

Former secretary of state Colin Powell says no one told him about it, and that then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice was in the dark too.

President George W. Bush says he thought the army would be kept intact after the US-led invasion in March 2003, but concedes to having a fuzzy memory on the matter.

"Yeah, I can't remember," he said in a new book, "Dead Certain," by Robert Draper. "I'm sure I said, 'This is the policy, what happened?"

The former administrator of Iraq, Paul Bremer, and his military counterpart at the time, retired army Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, say Bush is evading responsibility for one of the war's biggest blunders.

Others counter that Bremer is the one trying to shirk the blame.

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[babylonsister]

1. Amazing; not one person 'can recall' what happened with that blasted

Iraqi army. Nah, more like pathetic cowardice from all intent on avoiding the truth at all cost.

[L. Coyote]

2. Would someone PLEASE check the White House plumbing for lead in the water?

I'm serious, because if it isn't too much lead poisoning destroying memories, these guys are all lying!

It must be the lead, right? :rofl:

[ProSense]

3. Kick! n/t