Tuesday, May 8, 2007

General Shinseki Vindicated

Its interesting that President Bush said, the Democratic-led Congress shouldn't be telling the generals how to handle the Bush's Iraq war or micromanage his war. However, if the Republican-led Congress had done their job at the time, we wouldn't even be in this waror the resulting mess of this war.

General Shinseki said at the start of the war, several hundred thousand troops were needed, who listened to him? he was a general with knowledge of what was needed. Who was micromanaging then instead of the generals?

Donald Rumsfeld retired in shame rather ran out of office. Paul Wolfowitz is now at World Trade Bank causing another scandal. Gen Tommy Franks, nowretired supported Rumsfeld. Gen. Richard Myers is now retired. These folks escaped the fiasco they created or allowed to be created. Those, who were micromanaging the war into this quagmire we now have, have left the governement. The excuse, mistkaes were made, is an understatement as many soldiers and citizens have died needlessly. President Bush said we are fighting the global war on terror but we are in Iraq not Afghanistan where the terrorists are. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 or terrorism we experienced. Since we have devoted all our resources to fighting in Iraq we arent fighting the global war on terror. President Bush and his co-horts actually think USA citizens can't see through their smoke screen.


The judgment of how many troops would be needed to invade Baghdad and secure the country in the months ahead should have been based on military knowledge. Months before the invasion, Shinseki, then the Army chief of staff, told the Senate Armed Service Committee that occupying Iraq would require "several hundred thousand troops," partly because of "the kinds of ethnic tensions that could lead to other problems."
Shinseki, the first Japanese-American to wear four stars, was the right man to ask that question, having successfully commanded the NATO peacekeeping force in Bosnia. However, his estimate was quickly denounced by Paul D. Wolfowitz, then Rumsfeld's deputy at the Pentagon, as "wildly off the mark," and the secretary repeated that sentiment. Shinseki was shunned and set for retirement; Rumsfeld did not attend his retirement ceremony.

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