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The Iraq Study Group report states clearly that the original troop levels and post battle stability plans ordered up by Rumsfield were inadequate at best and optimistically negligent at worst. It always strikes me how easy war strategy and "nation building" must seem at the highest levels of our government. I will never understand how or why Generals with "boot on the ground" experience are so easily ignored during actual planning.
Why the hell were they put in command authority positions if no one is going to pay attention to what they say? As it turned out, the generals (Shinseki - sp ?) were right and Rumsfield and Wolfowitz (neither with real battle experience) were far off the mark.
Too bad they didn't follow the Powell Doctrine.
Too bad they never read State Dept's post war security plan for Iraq.
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Scott
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