Bush admits mistake over Iraq: "Bush said he had made a 'miscalculation of what the conditions would be' in postwar Iraq. But he said that was the result of the 'swift victory' against the Iraqi army, which collapsed so fast that it was able to melt away and stage a guerrilla insurgency.
Ivo Daalder, a former member of Bill Clinton's National Security Council and now an analyst at Brookings Institution, said the president's remarks showed 'a fundamental misunderstanding of the situation'.
'If the Iraqi defences fell quicker, we should have more troops in Baghdad. Had they had more troops there, they would have been able to deal with the insurgency more quickly and effectively,' Mr Daalder said. 'This was not miscalculation. This was ignoring military advice.' "
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