On Apr 3, 2:35*am, Kurt Ullman wrote:
In article ,
*"Robert Green" wrote:



Shinseki has plenty of experience and was not cowed by strong opposition. He
basically got sacked during Bush's adminstration for daring to tell Rummy
and the Congress that we didn't have enough boots on the ground in Iraq for
the war to come to a swift conclusion. *Guess he was right.

* *Nah. We had plenty to bring the war to a swift conclusion. It is the
peace that is giving us so much trouble.

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"Even I realized that money was to politicians what the ecalyptus tree is to koala bears: food, water, shelter and something to crap on."
*---PJ O'Rourke

So, they reckoned on perpetual war? There was no peace to follow it?