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Even L. Paul Brener now admits that we didn't have enough troops on the ground when we went in to Iraq.

The United States didn't have enough troops in Iraq immediately following the ouster of Saddam Hussein and "paid a big price" for it, the former head of the U.S. occupation there said Monday. L. Paul Bremer said he arrived in Iraq on May 6, 2003 to find "horrid" looting and a very unstable situation. "We paid a big price for not stopping it because it established an atmosphere of lawlessness," Bremer said during an address Monday in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., to an insurance group, which reported his comments. "We never had enough troops on the ground." But Bremer said he was "more convinced than ever that regime change was the right thing to do."

Why is it that only FORMER administration officials admit the truth. And perhaps more importantly, why is it that as former officials they all admit to the same version of the truth, a version which is completely different than the one they held as a part of the administration?

Oh, and one more thing... If a) the situation was "horrid" the "day he arrived", and b) that was due to insufficient troop levels, why didn't he as the head of the US occupation do something about it? Wasn't that his job?

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