Why is he still in office?
As I say below I don't really think a superpower is going to have any medium-term difficulty in pacifying Iraq. That doesn't however mean we should forget the errors of people like Paul Wolfowitz (from the New Republic)."Certainly the most obvious example was Wolfowitz's public repudiation of Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki in late February 2003. Shinseki, based on his extensive experience in the stabilization and reconstruction of postwar Bosnia, had told members of the Senate Armed Services Committee that, "I would say ... something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers, are probably, you know, a figure that would be required" for the stabilization and reconstruction of postwar Iraq. Two days later Wolfowitz told the House Budget Committee that Shinseki's estimate was "wildly off the mark." By way of explanation, he cited the fact that, "I am reasonably certain that [the Iraqi people] will greet us as liberators, and that will help us to keep requirements down."
posted by Matthew @ 4/07/2004 12:37:00 PM
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