When they [the Bush administration] could have listened to General Shinseki and put in enough troops to maintain order, they chose not to. They were wrong.
General George Casey, our top military commander in Iraq, recently told Congress that our large military presence "feeds the notion of occupation" and "extends the amount of time that it will take for Iraqi security forces to become self-reliant." . . . It is essential to acknowledge that the insurgency will not be defeated unless our troop levels are drawn down.
Will someone please tell the Junior Senator from Massachusetts that (a) the election is over; (b) and he lost; (c) because a majority of voters were not impressed with this kind of "reasoning"; (d) as it gave the lie to the notion that Bush was the stupid candidate in the race.
Or as Taranto puts it: "Apparently Kerry was for more troops before he was against it."
Meanwhile 115 battalions of Iraqi troops are fit to fight in in anti-insurgency operations in Iraq, with one third in the lead and two thirds side-by-side with Americans. Hmm. Is the senator listening to his intelligence briefings?
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