Not Enough Troops Says Powell - Big Effing Deal!!

On the British TV station ITV, Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says the U.S. went into Iraq with too few troops. Think Progress, has the transcript and video. A snippet of the transcript has him saying I have always been one who favored a larger military presence in an operation to make sure that you can deal with the unforeseen, but in the case of the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad, you had institutions being destroyed, you had ministries being burned down, and I have said on many occasions 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. Well big friggin' deal. So Colin didn't approve of the way things were being done. Well if that's the case, why the hell did he help mislead the country, the UN, and the world into an illegal occupation in the first place. He stood in front of the United Nation and on national television spewing forth lie after lie about mobile chemical weapons labs, caches of weapons of mass destruction. I have only one question for this turncoat. How can you live with your conscience Colin, knowing the deaths of innocent Iraqi people and members of your own military family your lies helped cause? I'm sorry but I just don't buy this guy's game any longer. He had the promise of being the most favored and biggest breath of fresh air in the Administration and he totally screwed us over in order to stay in power and suck up to the chimp-in-chief. Every progressive worth their salt knew what we were getting when Bush stole the election and forced himself upon the nation and the world. The only true hope for honesty and integrity in the entire administration was Colin Powell. and he chose the low road. Coming forward now with his feelings IMO is nothing more that self-serving crap. Stop by Think Progress for the entire transcript and the video.