Wrong Again

"Something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers are probably, you know, a figure that would be required [to occupy Iraq]. We're talking about post-hostilities control over a piece of geography that's fairly significant, with the kinds of ethnic tensions that could lead to other problems."

-Gen. Eric K. Shinseki
Testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee
February 25, 2003

"Some of the higher-end predictions that we have been hearing recently, such as the notion that it will take several hundred thousand U.S. troops to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq, are wildly off the mark."

-Paul Wolfowitz
Testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee
February 27, 2003


"The starkest evidence that the U.S. position in Iraq has deteriorated was the Pentagon's decision Monday to suspend the rotation home of about 24,000 U.S. troops. After an emergency conference among military officials Monday, a top military official at U.S. Central Command said the Pentagon was holding the troops in place to help stop the violence in Iraq from spreading out of control. The Pentagon is also looking at options for bringing even more U.S. troops from bases overseas or in the United States."

USA Today
A delicate time for U.S. mission
April 6, 2004

I'm fairly certain that the Bush administration lives in a parallel universe where accountability does not exist.

Have they been right about one thing in Iraq?

Oh and by the way, the Republican Chairmen of the Senate Intelligence Committee stated yesterday that those "Mobile Weapons Labs" You remember.... the ones Cheney always cites as evidence of WMDs in Iraq. Those very same ones, HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH WMDs!!!!!!!! David Kay said as much months ago, but Cheney refuses to back down from his previous claims. I wonder if he will now? Probably not.