Oh for Pete's Sake

Now, of all times, Paul Bremer has decided to come clean.

The former U.S. official who governed Iraq after the invasion said yesterday that the United States made two major mistakes: not deploying enough troops in Iraq and then not containing the violence and looting immediately after the ouster of Saddam Hussein.

Now he tells us. Now. He's out of Iraq. No longer in charge. On the lecture circuit. Trying to salvage his reputation.

"We paid a big price for not stopping it because it established an atmosphere of lawlessness," he said yesterday in a speech at an insurance conference in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. "We never had enough troops on the ground."

Just once I would like some Bush administration official to do this while in office.