This is typical Democratic Party mantra for the masses, "more bodies are better." Just how do you clear a congested battlefield overloaded with too many soldiers under attack from chemical weapons? More soldiers means more confusion. The Democrats know that this kind of thinking, more is better, sells to the stupid masses that support them.
Remember how Clinton added 100,000 cops to America's streets. Shortly afterwards four white New York cops unloaded 41 bullets into a black immigrant who was pulling keys out of his pocket to go into his apartment building. It turned out that three of the cops had only been on the force for less than six months, Clinton dogs. Less cops and stronger enforcement from the courts would go further to clean up the mess. Clinton’s idea of more cops is consistent with a lack of will to enforce the law.
More soldiers would be the same. Too many cooks spoil the soup. This passes over the heads of career government hacks like Clinton. Thank god we have Rumsfeld who has worked in both the private and public sector. Rumsfeld is right. Pound the crap out of the Iraqis from the air and then send in a small ground force to do the dirty ground work of extracting dug in resistance.
Never, ever got close to that number.