This has been posted before, but due to others with galloping senility, I'll post it again: Shinseki was at the end of his tenure as CoS of the Army, had long been a proponent large scale operations, notwithstanding the fact that current and projected opposing forces obviated against maintaining large numbers of armored divisions. His inability and unwillingness to view the current counter-terrorist objectives is why he was ignored, and all the more reason why GEN Schoomaker was pulled out of retirement to be the Army's Chief of Staff. As an expert on small-unit actions and operations, the new CoS knew better how to fight terrorists.
The larger the footprint of coalition forces, the larger the target for the terrorists. And with each additional door-kicker on the ground, there is a concommitant supply and support trail of 8-10 people. Unlike the situation when we were in Vietnam, we have brilliant senior leaders involved in Iraq and elsewhere, not a bunch of suck-up toadies like Harold K. Johnson. If the alleged recently departed high-ranking officers numbers has increased, that's only paranoid allegations that a purge happened or was about to happen.
And polls??? Polls are like rectums - everybody has one, so BFD. As anyone even in Tampa can realize, the questions can be worded in such a way to obtain practically any result that is foreordained by the pollster. Your boy Slick Willie governed by polls, while Bush governs by commitment to principles and integrity.
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