Bush CAN'T RECALL why Iraqi army disbanded: 'Yeah, I can't remember.'

[DeepModem Mom]

LAT: Bush can't recall why Iraqi army disbanded
In biography excerpts, he says he initially wanted to maintain the forces: 'Yeah, I can't remember.'
By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
September 3, 2007

WASHINGTON -- One of the most heavily criticized actions in the aftermath of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003 was the decision, barely two months later, to disband the Iraqi army, alienating former soldiers and driving many straight into the ranks of anti-American militant groups.

But excerpts of a new biography of President Bush show him saying that he initially wanted to maintain the Iraqi army and, more surprising, that he cannot recall why his administration decided to disband it.

"The policy was to keep the army intact; didn't happen," Bush told biographer Robert Draper in excerpts published in Sunday's New York Times.

Draper pressed Bush to explain why, if he wanted to maintain the army, his chief administrator for Iraq, L. Paul Bremer III, issued an order in May 2003 disbanding the 400,000-strong army without pay.

"Yeah, I can't remember; I'm sure I said, 'This is the policy, what happened?' " Bush said, adding: "Again, Hadley's got notes on all this stuff" -- a reference to national security advisor Stephen J. Hadley....

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/complete/la-na-bush3sep03,0,7983117.story?track=mostviewed-storylevel

[TwilightGardener]

1. "Oh, THAT....yeah, something about disbanding the army. I've got

people for that. I'm sure they did it. Or didn't do it. Whatever..."

[DeepBlueC]

2. Ummm, the dog ate those records, I think

[nealmhughes]

3. Despite all his other crimes, impeach him now for being an idiot.

Either he is telling the truth and the Admin does what it wants as long as he gets a bright new shiny bicycle every so often; or
he is lying and insulting the intelligence of everyone in the world.

Hyman Rickover used to have us read this little book of his collected wisdom. One of them was "I forgot doesn't cut it. Do you forget to cash your paycheck? Do you forget how to get home at night? Do you forget to go to the head or to eat?"

[ComerPerro]

6. that's always been the problem with Bush. He is either a liar, or a moron, or both!

[C_U_L8R]

4. Will we ever see Hadley's notes???

who's government is it anyway???

[fob]

5. PAGING Senator Leahy and Rep. Waxman!! Subpoena Hadley's

NOTES!!!!

Then depose that fucker *.