[HawaiianGecko]

This is the dumbest argument the Democrats have made yet.  They claim some kind of vindication because they say Shinseki wanted 'several hundreds of thousands' of troops.  Of course Obama wanted ZERO!  I don't see any logic to the story they are trying to paint.  Basically Obama appointed a man that was diametrically opposed to his argument over Iraq.

[STARWISE]

~~ Revealing the truth (FINALLY) PING!

We shall see how honorable the general is when it's time for confirmation.

God bless you, Larry DiRita, and your legendary former boss, Donald Rumsfeld.

[piasa]

Wasn’t Shinseki & some General Heebner [sp?] tight with General Dynamics on some sweetheart deal - a wheeled vehicle contract- during the 90s? I know he is tight with Senator Inouye and the Alaska Republican who’s in a corruption mess, Stevens. I had a link on it somewhere.

[johnny7]

...Shinseki wasn’t advocating 300,000 troops be dispatched into Iraq. In fact, he said specifically that the forces mobilized in the region to that point were probably enough, and he made it clear he would have defer to the combatant commander, Gen. Tommy Franks.

“I would have to rely on combatant commanders’ exact requirements,” he said.

But pressed by Sen. Carl Levin, D-Michigan, to make an off-the-cuff guesstimate, Shinseki said “it would take a significant ground force.”

-- Jamie McIntyre
CNN Senior Pentagon Correspondent

[SkyPilot]

Shinseki: "I would say that what's been mobilized to this point -- something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers are probably, you know, a figure that would be required."

Brilliant!

When I was a military officer, I used to say:

"With more manpower, funding, and training, we can make this better."

Wasn't I just amazing!? A genius!?