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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (14347)	3/1/2003 2:16:19 PM
From: Crimson Ghost	Respond to of 25898

Looks like many in the military are VERY UNHAPPY with the Likudniks running the Pentagon. ROWAN SCARBOROUGH, WASHINGTON TIMES - Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz yesterday repudiated an estimate from the Army's top general that it will take hundreds of thousands of troops to occupy postwar Iraq. Top Stories * Iraq agrees to destroy missiles Mr. Wolfowitz said the estimate in congressional testimony by Gen. Eric Shinseki, the Army chief of staff, was "wildly off the mark." He said it was difficult to understand how someone could predict that the occupation would require more troops than the invasion itself. He said Gen. Shinseki's prediction came at a "delicate time" when the Bush administration is trying to piece together a broad-based coalition to support an invasion of Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein. It is unusual for a senior Pentagon civilian to so thoroughly reject the testimony of a high-ranking military officer. A U.S. official said Mr. Wolfowitz's rebuke points out how unhappy the administration is with the general's testimony. The administration is sensitive to charges, especially in the Arab world, that the American military plans to rule postwar Iraq.