condi: "we made a mistake"

* egads! condi used the M word (link):

"But the chief US diplomat admitted that the process of raising an Iraqi army and police force had got off to a bumpy start.
"To be fair, we made a mistake earlier. We relied on number rather than on quality," she said."

altho now she's just mexing her missages:

"about 227 000 "quality" Iraqi troops had been trained and equipped to battle a raging insurgency alongside US forces."

take yer pick, condi - it's either quality OR quantity. anything else would just confuse the rubes.

also - i love the use of detail, just to demonstrate that she knows how what she is talking about - two hundred and twenty seven thousand.

i also like the use of 'earlier' as in "we made a mistake earlier" - as far as i can tell, 'earlier' means the first 35 months of the invasion