I’m so getting tired of reading this type of crap:

The “shoudda had more troops crowd” needs to explain where we were going to find these men. It’s like blaming Rumfeld for not using the “kill only evil men” bomb. You just can’t understand what’s holding him back.

No, No, No. When you screw something up, it’s up to you to explain why you did what you did in the first place. For criminy’s sake, when you look at how many troops it took us to defeat and take over just the southern part of Iraq in the first Gulf War, and you look at the fact that the low troop level was part of the goddamn military strategy, you don’t get to sit back and go, “geeze, where would we have gotten the troops?”

That’s not how it works… that’s not accountability or leadership. It’s political bullshit. Instead, you might want to answer, say, why did you decide to go to war with the low number of troops, especially when we have more evidence than ever that the justification for war was manufactured. The urgency was a fabrication of political convenience.

The fact of the matter is that the administration didn’t plan for the postwar period… they didn’t plan for keeping the peace and securing Iraq. Because they didn’t plan, they didn’t plan the troop levels accordingly. This in the face of advice from military leaders saying that we needed 300,000 troops in theater. Goddamn. If you’re going to ask where the troops should’ve come from, I’m going to ask you why the hell we went to war without figuring out what troops we would need after the war. Why did we go to war without enough troops? Grrr…

Granted, perhaps I’m getting pissed off at being called a traitor for not believing this administration is capable of executing this war in Iraq with any sort of integrity or skill. It’s getting old and it’s pretty pathetic.