>> The most respected military man in the public mind >> at the moment is Shinseki, because he bucked and lost for it. And he is busy > >Shinseki was wrong in 2003 and is still wrong. >Patreous is the most respected and his surge worked in spite of >Shinseki's poor vision and planning.
Really, how many soldiers did he recommend? and how many were sent in the surge? The two sets of numbers fairly match up. As for his poor vision and planning, it was more Rumsfeld and his pet yes men generals etc that were responsible for followup planning. Shinseki did the initial assault, which succeeded brilliantly. It was the follow through that Rumsfeld, Fallon and Sanchez planned that such as mess. When Shinseki wanted PRT's to come in after the initial operation were ended, that was turned down by Rumsfeld's people saying they were not needed. > >> trying to fix the shambles that is the VA administration. > >By making soldiers pay for their own medical insurance? That was never seriously considered. >You just lost half the countries support by changing the name. At >least your half is happy now. What support. Bush managed to piss off the vast majority of the US allies. if his policies were continued I seriously doubt whether any real allies would be left. Look how much the US had to pay the most of the members of Coalition of the Willing in order to get them to send even a token force. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:292970 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
