No, those are excellent questions. And unless the Bush White House comes up with better answers than "Zinni worked for Clinton," Bush will lose, despite the fact that Kerry is a lying weasel who makes Al Gore look dynamic and charasmatic.
Only to someone who considers Zinni a respectable officer, otherwise they are nothing more then whinning by someone still using a go pat go tagline.
We still don't need more troops. The larger numbers piss off the Iraqis and cause them to resent the occupation even more than they rightfully do now. The 200 billion dollar comment was made without authorization and the ass was not supposed to make dollar assessments on a war that has no assessed price. Not even today.
There have been dozens of stories with flowers in them. I guess you never read them.
Questions asked and for the second time answered.