and was scared to be politically unpopular by sending too many troops too fastQUOTE]
Not picking on you JJ
this actuallt worries me, I have heard this from a couple of areas, the re-working of the history, that the President was snookered and he secretly wanted to send more troops in early but was afraid to.
It's a shifting of blame to the administration and away from the man. But the man is President and what he wanted happened. THis is a guy that nominated Miers becuase thats what he wanted. I don't think he was hood winked on Iraq. He just didn't care about the details, like he didn't care about the details for Katrina...