Source: CNN
(CNN) — This week, we mark the tenth anniversary of the day the U.S. launched the Iraq War. But when we think of how differently that war might have been fought, the most important date to remember is February 25, 2003.
That’s when Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki told the Senate Armed Services Committee that “several hundred thousand soldiers” would be needed in Iraq when post-hostilities control was taken into consideration.
Shinseki’s estimate was more than double that of the George W. Bush administration, which in March 2003 sent a ground invasion force of 145,000 troops into Iraq.
Donald Rumsfeld’s Defense Department wasted no time in answering Shinseki. Two days after Shinseki’s Senate testimony, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz used his appearance before the House Budget Committee to present an entirely different view of America’s prospects in Iraq.
Categories: Americas
Again: It is clear to me. The American Government knew that they needed much more troups to bring peace to Iraq. Yet, they decided not to come in with sufficient troups. What does that mean? It means that they did not really WANT to bring peace to Iraq: They just wanted to create disorder. Therefore what they wanted they got, until this day. (Is that so difficult to understand?)