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To: Brumar89 who wrote (438735)	12/8/2008 12:44:53 AM
From: RMF	Read Replies (2) of 1574260

We didn't need "massive numbers" of troops there. We needed about three brigades. We should have had those troops at staging grounds in the countries we made deals with in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. The CIA was there and they knew where the troops were needed. They were the ones that were begging for them. We wanted to do Afghanistan "on the cheap" and paying off Warlords to do the fighting was cheaper (and much less casualties) than sending our own guys in. Afghanistan suffered from the same sort of "short term" planning as Iraq eventually did. Rumsfeld figured that winning a short war and installing a "puppet government" was all it would take. They figured the Taliban and Al Qeada would just break up and disappear, just the same way they figured all the disparate religions and factions in Iraq would just accept whatever guy we gave them (Chalabi). We have a State Department full of experts that could have told them all this, but they didn't want to hear it. BTW, it's good to see General Shinseky getting to head Veteran's Affairs after the morons in the Bush Administration "drummed him out" for telling the TRUTH about the number of troops that would be needed in Iraq!!!

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