The Daily Background

ThinkProgress has the scoop, and the video. Powell said in a recent interview:

…I don’t think we had enough force there at that time to impose order. That’s what we were responsible for, because when you have taken out a government, a regime, then you become responsible for the country.

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POWELL: I made the case to General Franks and Secretary Rumsfeld before the president though that it was not sure we had enough troops, and so the case was made. It was listened to. It was considered. And those responsible for the troop levels, Mr Rumsfeld and General Franks, and the joint chiefs of staff, which include the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, believed they had the appropriate troop level.

Rumsfeld of course has been defending the level of troops that he sent into Iraq, even though it’s being increasingly seen as one of his failures. Now Powell has come out and said that Rumsfeld just plain didn’t send enough troops in. Add him to the big list of those calling for Rumsfeld’s resignation.

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