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Powell says Iraq surge should have come earlier

Posted on Sunday, July 5th, 2009 and is filed under World News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Colin Powell says the U.S. took too long to strengthen its forces in Iraq after Baghdad fell early in the war. Powell, the nation’s top military officer under President George H.W. Bush and secretary of state for President George W. Bush, said the decision to use a lighter force to defeat the Iraqi army was correct. But he said in a television interview broadcast Sunday that the younger Bush’s administration should have realized the initial success in 2003 was only the start of a longer fight. “Unfortunately, the war wasn’t over” after Baghdad fell and Saddam Hussein was ousted, Powell said. “The war was just beginning. And then it took us, in my judgment, too long to…

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