Great Moments In Leadership
September 4th, 2007at 09:13pm Posted by Eli
I just wanted to follow up a bit on my previous post, about the little… disagreement between Dubya and Paul Bremer as to whether Bremer went off the reservation in ordering the dissolution of the Iraqi military.
First, let me just recap Dubya’s priceless response to said dissolution:
“The policy was to keep the army intact; didn’t happen.”
But when Mr. Draper pointed out that Mr. Bush’s former Iraq administrator, L. Paul Bremer III, had gone ahead and forced the army’s dissolution and then asked Mr. Bush how he reacted to that, Mr. Bush said, “Yeah, I can’t remember, I’m sure I said, ‘This is the policy, what happened?’ ” But, he added, “Again, Hadley’s got notes on all of this stuff,” referring to Stephen J. Hadley, his national security adviser.
Which prompted Bremer to produce the letter proving that he gave Dubya a heads-up on what he planned to do.
So, I think there are two possibilities here:
1) Dissolving the Iraqi military was the policy, and Dubya just doesn’t want to admit it because it turned out so disastrously, or…
2) Dubya didn’t pay any attention to Bremer’s letter, no-one (including Bremer) told him what he was about to do… and Dubya didn’t care. No-one got fired, and Dubya doesn’t even remember reacting to it, merely theorizes that he would have asked what happened.
So he’s either a great big liar, or the weakest, most oblivious president of all time.
Tough choice.
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