Reply #16: Flip-Flops running rampant? [View All]

[radfringe]

ummm...errrr... what happened to the :shrug: "..people die in war..." philosophy?

meanwhile---the "cakewalk follies"

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/167778_thomas06.html
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This recalls the prescience of Gen. Eric Shinseki, former Army chief of staff, who warned before the war that the occupation of Iraq "would require several hundred thousand troops."

Shinseki was ridiculed by deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz who called his assessment "wildly off the mark."

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Army Strategist Criticizes Bush Administration Conduct of Iraq War
by David Wood
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0414-02.htm

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Many officers still are rankled by the treatment of former Army Chief of Staff Gen. Eric Shinseki, who last spring was sharply criticized in public by Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz for suggesting the occupation would require significantly more troops than the initial war. At Rumsfeld's direction, the number was whittled back, with Rumsfeld and other senior officials arguing that "shock and awe" would collapse any opposition and the Iraqi people, as Vice President Dick Cheney said in a March 16, 2003 interview on NBC's "Meet the Press," would greet U.S. troops "as liberators."