Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Bush: 'I can't remember why we disbanded the Iraqi army'

Yup. The single worst mistake of the war and possibly the precipitating factor in the rise of the insurgency, but Bush apparently has no idea why we did it:

"The policy was to keep the army intact. Didn't happen," he told the book's author, Robert Draper.

Asked how he had reacted then to the crucial decision by former Iraq administrator Paul Bremer to dissolve the army, the president said: "I can't remember, I'm sure I said, 'This is the policy, what happened?'"

Then he referred to Stephen Hadley, his national security advisor, saying: "Hadley's got the notes on all of this stuff."

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