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McIntyre: Myth of Shinseki lingers
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Dec 08, 2008 04:23pm |
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| Media | TV News - CNN |
| News Date | Monday, December 8, 2008 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In fairness to Gen. Eric Shinseki, he's never said "I told you so."
But many others have elevated his now-famous February 2003 testimony to the level of Scripture.
Shinseki was right, they say, when he told the Senate Armed Services Committee a month before the invasion that something on the order "several hundred thousand troops" would be necessary to keep order in a post-invasion Iraq.
At the time, that observation drew loud scoffs from then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and from his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, who dismissed the prediction as "wildly off the mark."
Still, Shinseki wasn't advocating 300,000 troops be dispatched into Iraq. In fact, he said specifically that the forces mobilized in the region to that point were probably enough, and he made it clear he would have defer to the combatant commander, Gen. Tommy Franks. |
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