Top Ten Differences Between the Iraq War and Trump’s Proposed Iran War - Global ResearchGlobal Research - Centre for Research on Globalization
General
Eric Shinseki testified before Congress prior to Bush’s invasion that
based on the US military’s experience in the Balkans, 800,000 troops
would be needed to provide security to
Iraq. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld insisted on 100,000 troops,
wrongly believing he could pull them out in 6 months. Bush’s viceroy in
Iraq, Paul Bremer, later admitted that “we never had enough troops” in
Iraq.
