We were in trouble from day one

I have mostly given up on watching Tim Russert and Meet the Press, but today I tuned in because he was interviewing Paul Bremmer. Bremmer is pitching his new book, "My Year in Iraq." Tim was mostly pitching softballs, but Bremmer did talk about two subjects of interest. First, he mentioned that, in late 2003, he sent a note to Rumsfeld asking for two more battalions of troops. Rumsfeld never responded.

Then he mentioned a conversation he had with Gen. Richard Sanchez, commander of the Army in Iraq at that time. He said, "What would you do with 35,000 or 40,000 more troops, Rick?"

Sanchez responded, "I'd control Baghdad."

We never had enough troops and Bremmer, seeing the situation on the ground for himself, knew we needed a lot more. The commanders knew it. It was just Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz who kept telling the media that the "mission was accomplished" and we were doing fine.

It was a line of crap from day one.