More Troops Would Have Been Great, But the Invasion Was Still Terrific

One of the most unpopular and hated men in America, Donald Rumsfeld, told Diane Sawyer of ABC News the decision not to send more troops to Iraq in 2003 to squelch the uprising of their Great Liberation could be seen as one of the war's biggest mistakes.

Rumsfeld wasn’t in total accordance with the orchestration of the Iraq war decision-making process. Rumsfeld told ABC’s Diane Sawyer that “it’s possible” the war’s biggest mistake surrounds the decision on how many troops to send to Iraq.

Sawyer cited a line in Rumsfeld’s new book, “Known and Unknown,” in which he says, “more troops could have been useful [in Iraq].”

“It’s possible,” Rumsfeld responded. “In a war, many things cost lives.”

Somehow not sending any troops at all to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, that did not possess WMD-- i.e., nothing Rummy & Co. told us about the war turned out to be true-- didn't pop up in the conversation.

One thing we as a country have learned from Glorious War; in waging war that is because I don't think we have learned anything at all about partaking in it, is the worst thing you can possibly do when fighting a war is have George W. Bush and Rumsfeld in charge.  This we know.