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Article: Top aide brands Bush a liar over Iraqi army's fate; Anger: Paul Bremer Claim: President Bush.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- September 5, 2007
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Byline: David Gardner
PRESIDENT Bush was effectively branded a liar yesterday after suggestingthat the disastrous disbandment of the Iraqi army was carried out in defianceof White House policy.
The accusation came from Paul Bremer who was Mr Bush's senior envoy chargedwith overseeing Iraq's reconstruction after the invasion.
The decision to disband the army after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein waswidely seen as one of America's biggest mistakes in post-war policy.
It stoked rebellion among hundreds of thousands of former Iraqi soldiers whofound th`selves jobless. It also fuelled sectarian violence and left coalitionforces completely ...