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Originally posted by Gattigap
This, of course, clearly explains the Administration's policy on troop levels ever since the very public smackdown of (the proven accurate) Shinseki years ago.
"We'd love to send 300,000 or so troops, but that Boxer and Kennedy? Ohhhh, they're meanies. Let's try to make do with what we have."
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Tell me why the admin would worry about keeping troop levels as low as possible if not for the purely political reason of not wanting to give the D's more ammo. Tell me why it would argue with its own generals, if not because it knew that the more troops it sent, the louder the D's would object, and the more chance that the right course of action would become politically unacceptable. I imagine that, left with no opposition, Bush would have sent way more people. He'd have no real reason not to.
You want to stare at your cake as you digest it. Can't do that.
