re: #90 Kenneth

That was the quite possibly the most egregious thing Rumsfeld said as Sec-Def. He said that in response to criticism about the size of the force the US sent into Iraq. The reality is that most of his Pentagon advisers wanted many, many more troops. It was Rumsfeld who pushed the war planners to slash the force down, down and down. The Us went to war with exactly the force Rumsfeld wanted. Even as the invasion started, Rumsfeld diverted troops already in transit to Iraq away.

Wasn’t it supposed to be bigger and have a large force invade from Turkey? And Turkey backed out as a staging area with our troops and equipment in transit? And wouldn’t it have taken weeks to get everything in transit to another staging area? I recall some or all of this being a part of the problem…