WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell Friday echoed President's Bush's comments that "miscalculations" had been made in Iraq.
"You make plans, but what you have to be able to do is adjust those plans when faced with reality," he told Tony Snow's talk radio show. "There is an old army expression, "No plan survives first contact with an enemy."
In a New York Times interview Friday, Bush said he made a "miscalculation of what the conditions would be" after U.S. troops went to Iraq."
Powell told Snow, however, the United States would continue to press ahead, supporting the interim Iraqi government, in its attempts to stabilize Iraq.
Powell also discussed radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose Mahdi Army, agreed Thursday to a cease-fire in Najaf. He said it was still unclear if the general amnesty the interim government announced applied to Sadr, adding, however, "Right now, we're not pursuing that."
