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Originally Posted by The Reaper
For their part, the generals are happy when left to their sandbox. In February 2003, when then-Army chief of staff Gen. Eric Shinseki, an honorable soldier, told the truth when asked how many troops an occupation of Iraq would require (hundreds of thousands), Rumsfeld sidelined him. (Thereafter, Rumsfeld took care to appoint weaker men to the Joint Chiefs.)
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T-, Am I to read this that Peters thinks that Pete Schoomaker was weak? I know he wasn't a member of the Service Chiefs, but he was brought out of retirement by the SECDEF to sit in Shinseki's seat. What am I missing?..