Pentagon says too many troops took part in Iraq operation. Really.

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Bucking opinion trend, Pentagon says too many troops took part in Iraq operation

By Gordon Trowbridge
Times staff writer


From think-tank analysts to angry retired generals to Capitol Hill lawmakers, it has become nearly universal conventional wisdom that the U.S. invasion force that conquered Iraq in 2003 lacked the manpower to secure the country after Saddam’s fall.

But the Pentagon’s civilian policymakers may have learned a much different lesson. According to a defense official, the problem with Operation Iraqi Freedom was not too few U.S. troops, but too many.


“You could have adopted a radically different concept of operations,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “You could have trained free forces in various parts of Iraq and over time they could have gained greater control of the country.
http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1717110.php

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1. That is true. There should have been ZERO!!!

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2. Too many troops in the museums and not enough troops

at the ammunition dumps.

Absolutely obvious that the supervision was more like snooper-vision with no one knowing what in the fuck was going on.