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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (516636)12/29/2003 12:00:53 AM
From: jim-thompson   of 769670
 
President Bush is a shoe-in. I just wish he would fire that sorry ass rumsfield. he is the one who screwed up the planning for the iraq invasion in the first place.

threw the generals out of his office and told them to come up with a better plan. also invited a mess of general officers to retired. passed over active duty generals and went back into the retired ranks to get a "yes" general to be the new army chief of staff.

here it is laid out in simple english

"Chief among the lessons learned from Vietnam was that the requirements for facilities engineering support in future conflicts must be anticipated during contingency planning, inasmuch as these requirements represent a substantial portion of the resources required to support such an operation-the total force dedicated to facilities engineering (over 25,000) approached the combined strength of the two engineer brigades deployed to Vietnam (about 30,000). The feasibility and, under similar circumstances, the desirability of providing the major portion of this force by contract was demonstrated in Vietnam. Our experience also clearly demonstrated the need for the Army to maintain, in its active force structure, an adequate number of military personnel trained in facilities engineering to provide management and supervision of contractor and direct-hire civilian maintenance forces and to man sufficient numbers of military facilities engineering detachments to ensure continuity of essential operations in emergency situations. "

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