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Powell Advised Bush to Invade Iraq With Larger Force (Update1)

April 30 (Bloomberg) -- Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said he urged President George W. Bush to deploy a greater numbers of troops for the 2003 invasion of Iraq than advocated by the Pentagon.

``I made the case to General (Tommy) Franks and Secretary (Donald) Rumsfeld before the President that I wasn't sure we had enough troops,'' Powell said in an interview with Britain's ITV television network broadcast today. ``The President's military advisers felt that the size of the force was adequate. They may still feel that years later. Some of us don't. I don't.''

Powell said that generals and other Department of Defense advisers were ``anticipating a different kind of aftermath'' to the Iraq war.

A confidential memo written on Jan. 31, 2003, by David Manning, then a top U.K. foreign policy adviser, said Bush and U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair expected a quick victory and a complicated but manageable transition to a new Iraqi government, the New York Times reported on March 27.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aaa9Y_3JrSAY

THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN NO INVASION YOU LIAR!!!!!!!!!!


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