Needed change. IMO we clearly need a larger military, but Rumsfeld refused to budge from his vision of a leaner machine despite growing evidence that his vision was not working.
We'll be very lucky now if Baghdad doesn't wind up looking like Saigon in 1975.
Bush and the Pentagon have continuously acted as though they had an infinite amount of time to finish Iraq; well, the 4th quarter just started, and Bush better start pushing for some results, because his dilatory prosecution of the war is heading towards disaster.