[in hoc signo vinces]

More to the point. We didnt have the time for a massive build up...we still wanted take the "initiative" in battle with the little surprise we had.

Plus...How would we have brought all those troops into the theater to be effective, since Turkey denied us another front to attack from? Franks did a good job with what he had in the time frame he had to do it in, which is why the oil fields in Iraq were pretty much taken intact and the people of Iraq were liberated without a Shermanesque type invasion plan.

So...these Generals are either oblivious to the "whyfor's" of Gen. Franks planning and the fluidity of the situation at the beginning of OIF or, worse, being disingenious with an axe to grind...methinks the later is more probable.

Shame on them.

[Toidylop]

Some how these retired generals seem to have an urge to speak out when it's absolutely NOT relevant. The Joints Chief of Staff General Peter Page exposed these generals bogus charges when they were asked and given opportunities to review and comment on the plan. They either SLEEP on the job or what!!! SIGH...

[RobbyS]

I know that historical parallels are invidious, but I think that it is conceded that if Hitler had not taken the advise of Guderian in 1940, the Wehrmacht would have repeated the invasion of 1914 through Belgium , the Allied positions along the Meuse would have held. The Germans simply did not have the weight that they had in 1914.