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2009-12-03 Home Front: WoT

Rumsfeld Cries Foul on Obama Claim Troop Requests for Afghanistan Were Denied

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Posted by gorb 2009-12-03 06:18|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 I thought it was well understood that Rummy had made it very clear during 2004 that he thought there were enough troops in Iraq, and that requests for more were not what he wanted. And so there were none. I presume the same MO was applied to Afghanistan.

Posted by liberalhawk 2009-12-03 11:27|| 2009-12-03 11:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Right, LH. Perhaps instead of denied requests, someone can instead produce evidence of that. Ya know, something akin to Gen. Jones' comment to the Afghanistan brass earlier this year (!!!). How about the Bush strategy review that was handed over - was that based on a quiet suppression of military requests too?

Two things. First, this is a good example of the correction of misinformation and slander that should have been aggressively performed from 9/11 onwards - and which the Bush administration failed to perform even once in all those years. The gigantic mountain of lies and distortion so many important issues ranging from intel to war strategy to the Geneva Conventions and on and on now serves as "knowledge" for many.

Second, things are worse than people think within the military. Some senior Army brass in Iraq were so committed to a nutty strategy of reconstruction before security that they ended up in shouting matches with civilians who called them on the absurdity of their approach in meetings in Baghdad. That is, there is reason to believe that the ineffective strategy in Iraq in 05/06 was absolutely not crammed down the Army's throat.

Posted by Verlaine 2009-12-03 12:04|| 2009-12-03 12:04|| Front Page Top

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