Going to Iraq with far too few troops, for one.
And his stupid idea that we don't need a large force anymore.
Ludicrous.
Well, (1) where was he going to get6 those troops? and (2) WHEN could he have had them in place? In 1991 there were lots of bodies in Germany. No way coul;d he have had 300,000 troops in Iraq, Shinseki floated that figure because he didn't want them there at ANYTIME.
I keep hearing some critics saying this, but with the sweeping lightning fast victory how do you say such a thing?
What makes you so sure we need a large force?
We aren't even using 15% of the Armed Forces in Iraq.
General Franks has said he had enough troops going in and that he was in on the decision.
You don't know what you are talking about.
Here is somebody who knows what he is talking about:
"If we could have gotten more troops on the ground, we would have, but we couldn't come through Turkey. We had one small hole to get through. That was up through Kuwait. And we got as many troops on the ground as fast as we could." - - LtGen Michael Delong USMC Ret.
And his stupid idea that we don't need a large force anymore."
With the troops we have we are whacking the hell out of the insurgents. In January, 2004 Army Gen. George Casey, the top U.S. officer in Iraq, said "U.S. and Iraqi forces had killed or captured 15,000 people last year." In May, 2005 Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, then-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, mentioned the killing of 250 of insurgent leader Abu Musab Zarqawi's "closest lieutenants" as evidence of progress in Iraq.
As to the initial invasion, U.S. General Tommy Franks estimated that there had been 30,000 Iraqi troops killed as of April 9, 2003. Officials estimated that 2,000-3,000 Iraqi troops were killed in one day alone during a blitz into Baghdad on April 5, 2003, suggesting that a total in the tens of thousands KIAs during that six-week period of major combat.
This war effort may be expensive, however for our enemy, it has been more than expensive. There is one cost that is indeed more than one can bear. That is the cost of defeat. And for our enemy, make no mistake, that is one cost that they face daily in the land of Iraq.
And we are drawing the insurgents in from other countries like bugs being drawn to that big bug zapper like the ones people put in their yards to kill off bloodsucking mosquitoes. Yes, these are also bloodsuckers because they use terror against the weak and innocent to suck off their freedom.