Powell criticizes Bush for inadequate troop deployment in Iraq

xinhuanet: Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell criticized the Bush Administration for not following his advice to deploy enough troops to Iraq before the onset of the war.

In an interview on the UK's ITV on Sunday, Powell said "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."

"At the time the president was listening to those who were supposed to be providing him with military advice," he said. "They were anticipating a different kind of aftermath of the fall in Baghdad. It turned out to be not exactly as they had anticipated."

Powell's remarks comes at a sensitive time for U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who has been put on the defensive for his leadership on the war, with a number of retired generals calling for his resignation. Read more