There was NO REAL PLANNING on the part of the WH for post-war Iraq. Otherwise, they might’ve left Garner in charge instead of flailing around with the State Department.
Have you ever had a passing acquaintance with the truth?
Shinseki's numbers were based on nothing. It is a leftist myth which you embrace like a warm woman on a cold night.
The fact is that Gen. Shinseki failed to prepare his service for the kind of war that emerged in Iraq in 2003: an insurgency. The “surge” implemented in 2007 by Gen. David Petraeus was successful not only because of an increase troop strength. It was successful because of the application of a new counterinsurgency doctrine that Gen. Shinseki and most other Army generals had rejected. As Garofano observes, the situation in Iraq “comes down, as it did in Vietnam, to analysis, getting it right, and providing clear alternatives that address or confront policy goals.” In the final instance, this Shinseki failed to do.
Same with the "No Planning" crap. No plan survives the first shot and you should know that lefty based on your communications with the SecDef.
Improvise, adapt, overcome. That is the crap that happens in war. Only left wing loons and other assorted malcontents can't wrap their arms around that truth.
Do you get your talking points directly from Keith Olberman or through a filter?
“Have you ever had a passing acquaintance with the truth?”
Why, yes... I do. Shinseki was right that more troops were needed. That his reasons weren’t the correct ones in hindsight does not change that fact. He was wrong on plenty of other things - like no longer needing heavy divisions and issuing everyone a beret.
“Same with the “No Planning” crap. No plan survives the first shot and you should know that lefty based on your communications with the SecDef.”
No battle plan does, but there was no real planning on how to handle the war after that. The DOD had a plan. The WH didn’t.
I didn’t communicate with the SecDef. We were all sent a copy of “Rumsfeld’s Rules”. I still find it amusing that you LBJ II defenders have the gall to call conservatives “lefty”.
“Do you get your talking points directly from Keith Olberman or through a filter?”
If Keith weren’t such an idiot, he would’ve realized that George W. Bush was the best ally he and his side have had in years.
STOP DEFENDING LIBERALISM!