You can take away our freedoms, apparently, but you cannot take away his Medal of Freedom

Oh, C-Plus Disgustus, why do you lie so much?

I'm no Paul Bremer fan, as his share of the fuck ups is pretty deep. But he was but a cog in this whole disaster and any mistake he made, is the mistake of hard-drinkin' Blinkin', the Chief Disaster of the United States:

L. Paul Bremer, who led the U.S. civilian occupation authority in Iraq after the 2003 invasion, urged U.S. President George W. Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to increase U.S. postwar troop strength in the country, but his pleas were ignored, the former diplomat said.

In an interview on NBC Television broadcast Sunday night, Bremer said he sent a memo to Rumsfeld suggesting that half a million soldiers would be needed, three times the number deployed by the Bush administration.

"I never had any reaction from him," Bremer told NBC's Brian Williams on "Dateline."

Although he never heard back from his direct boss, Bremer said he did discuss his concerns with Bush.

Quoting Bremer, the network said Bush replied that he would try to get more troops from other countries "but made no mention of increasing the number of American forces."

Bremer thought the Pentagon painted a false picture of the capability of the Iraqi force, who would take over when the Americans departed.

"I raised my concerns about the numbers and quality of these (Iraqi) forces -- really right from the beginning," he said.

Not that Bremer could manage to bring this up in public, it might have kept him from getting this:



And there is more:

Bremer, on a media blitz in connection with release of his book on Iraq, acknowledged that in November 2003 he told Vice President Dick Cheney he was worried that there was no military strategy for Iraq and that the policy was driven more by the Pentagon's plan to bring troops home by the spring of 2004.

The book, "My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope," is due to be released on Monday.

"The vice president said to me, 'Well, I have similar concerns,'" Bremer said in the interview.

"He thought there was something to be said for the argument that we didn't have a strategy for victory at that time," the diplomat added.

Publicly, Cheney, a major cheerleader of the administration and its war efforts, has not hinted at such misgivings.

What? "Candies & Sweets, Final Throes Cheney"?