"I suppose she was impressed with Gen Shinseki's vindication on the matter"
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What the mattter MD, you one of the out of touch Pentagon dinasours Rummy booted to the curb?
I love the way Know Nothings just keep screaming their opinion as fact. Pity some Freepers still cannot grasp their feelings are not facts. Shinseki's retirement date was set in 2002. It had nothing to do with his postion on Iraq.
As for the "More boots on ground" dogma, We followed that dogma in Vietnam. We had 500,000 troops in country at one point. We lost.
We did NOT follow it in Iraq and we are wininning. The ONLY person vidicated here is Rumsfeild despite the fact the usual collections of Know Nothing STILL refuse to admit they were wrong about Iraq ALL along.
That data is available at the following links for anyone who actually wants to learn instead of blinding clinging to their failed know nothing dogmas.
http://icasualties.org/oif/
http://icasualties.org/oif/IraqiDeaths.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_Security_Forces
Really? I don't recall us losing one battle, not one when we had more boots on the ground. It was in the aftermath of Nixon's "Vietnamization" and "Peace With Honor" drawdown and during his Watergate impeachment imbroglio when we lost...(due to the combined fact of the country's war fatigue (because Nixon, and LBJ before him, ascribed the same logic DUH-Bee-Yuh is using) and the results of handing our military operations off to the green, and poorly led RVN forces before they could handle the situation with the more determined NVA).
We did not lose the military war in viet nam.
We had traitors like Walter Cronkit spining the USA into defeat. We had democrats BS for political gain.