Bluer White
New Yorker
or, the elimination of Rumsfeld in 2004 might have made a much bigger difference 2 years earlier and we might never have had the apocolyptic escalation of violence that we did in 2006/7.
McCain agreed with you in 2004.
Asked about his confidence in the secretary’s leadership, McCain recalled fielding a similar question a couple weeks ago. “I said no. My answer is still no. No confidence,” McCain said.
He estimated that 80,000 more Army personnel and 20,000 to 30,000 more Marines would be needed to secure Iraq.
“I have strenuously argued for larger troop numbers in Iraq, including the right kind of troops — linguists, special forces, civil affairs, etc.,” McCain said. “There are very strong differences of opinion between myself and Secretary Rumsfeld on that issue.”
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