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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (26967)10/4/2004 11:36:51 AM
From: Rarebird  Read Replies (1) of 173976
 
< But we didn't use American forces, the best trained in the world, to go kill him. The president relied on Afghan warlords and he outsourced that job too. That's wrong.">

The core military problem for the US in its present occupation of Iraq is that it has woefully insufficient troops there to come even close to a successful military occupation. How many troops would be needed to stabilize Iraq? The highly respected International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, before which the President spoke last November, says 500,000. US Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki told Congress publicly before the war that "several hundred thousand" troops would be needed. He was asking for 400,000. He was shown the door after having made that statement.
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