From: Jeff Shultz 

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:36:08 -0600, John Cuccia wrote:

> Remember when Gen. Shinseki estimated that it would take several hundred
> thousand troops to secure post-invasion Iraq?  Remember when his estimate
> was sneered at by Paul Wolfowitz, who claimed that the general was "wildly
> off the mark" because there was no history of ethnic strife in Iraq?

Reality seems to be, like it often is, somewhere in the middle. Wolfie
underestimated the problem, GEN Shinseki overestimated the number of troops
(it isn't taking several hundred thousand...)

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