Envoy’s Letters Counter Bush on Plan for Iraq

L Paul Bremer

Now who in the world would ever suspect Bush of lying? OK, you can all put your hands down. We got the message.

A previously undisclosed exchange of letters shows that President Bush was told in advance by his top Iraq envoy in May 2003 of a plan to “dissolve Saddam’s military and intelligence structures,” a plan that the envoy, L. Paul Bremer, said referred to dismantling the Iraqi Army.

Mr. Bremer provided the letters to The New York Times on Monday after reading that Mr. Bush was quoted in a new book as saying that American policy had been “to keep the army intact” but that it “didn’t happen.”

The dismantling of the Iraqi Army in the aftermath of the American invasion is now widely regarded as a mistake that stoked rebellion among hundreds of thousands of former Iraqi soldiers and made it more difficult to reduce sectarian bloodshed and attacks by insurgents. In releasing the letters, Mr. Bremer said he wanted to refute the suggestion in Mr. Bush’s comment that Mr. Bremer had acted to disband the army without the knowledge and concurrence of the White House.

This is just the latest example of Bush's stupidity. He lied even though there was indisputable evidence available proving he was lying.

Bremers' dismantling of the Iraqi Army was a colossal blunder, but he did run it past the boss, who gave his approval, before doing it.

Via New York Times.