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...President Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz were conspicuously absent from Shinseki's retirement ceremony...
...notion that it would take several hundred thousand American troops just seems outlandish."- Former Deputy Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz, on Shinsaki's estimate...
...might be necessary and then bringing the surplus home. He accurately predicted that ethnic tensions would trigger violence in Iraq and require significant ground forces to contain. The war ultimately required a "surge" of 30,000 additional troops beginning in January 2007, validating Shinseki's premonition. But Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz had belittled his assessment...
...Beware a 12-division strategy for a 10-division Army," Shinkseki warned at his retirement ceremony, an event attended by neither Rumsfeld nor Wolfowitz. It was a public rebuke that sent a shiver through the officer corps, and made clear that professional dissent - however carefully considered and delivered by a top officer with 38 years in uniform - could derail an exemplary career. (Contrary to public perception, however, Shinseki was not fired by Rumsfeld. He served out his term as Army chief of staff, although Rumsfeld's allies had already hacked away at Shinseki's influence by proclaiming him a lame...
...Senator Carl Levin had to extract it from him, slowly and painfully, during a Senate hearing. That's when, in February 2003, Shinseki said he felt that "something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers" would be needed. Forty-eight hours later, it was the derisive reaction of Wolfowitz, who never served in the military, that Shinseki's estimate was "wildly off the mark" that cemented Shinseki's legacy. (Many soldiers still haven't forgiven him for outfitting the entire Army in the distinctive black berets once reserved for its elite Rangers...