McCain just throws out that OPINION...with the only reason not being enough troops???
Well...the way we went into Iraq...I don't know how we could have gotten a whole lot more in before we took out Baghdad...
Sheesh...the troops that were turned away in Turkey and had to go all the way around to the gulf...were late getting in..and I am not sure they were even needed.
NOW...I think that Tommy Franks was right when he said that that the USA was a "victim" of it's own military SUCCESS!!
He said they went so far, so fast...that the rest of the military to help keep the peace were not set up yet.
I think if we remember....this war went SO DIFFERENT than what was predicted...re: millions of refugees storming the borders...10,000 US military body bags ordered...WMDS suits being worn by the military..having to fight door to door in Baghdad..
NONE of that happened...which is a GOOD THING, IMHO..
and yet this IDIOT McCain can stand there and say the Rummy is the WORST Sec. of Defense EVER???
Wasn't he also over the Afghanistan war...that also went very well???
PUH-llllllleeeze.
Get these candidates out of my face...I am getting sick of ALL of them, both parties.
Well put!!!!!
They were needed. Because they didn't come in from the north, the northern nuts were disrupted rather than separated out and killed. As it was their going all the way around allowed them to be used to fake out the Iraqi Army and to gain a tactical surprise.