Going to war at the Five and Dime

Donald Rumsfeld has gotten a lot of criticism for trying to run the Iraq War on the cheap. His generals were telling him he needed more troops, but he wouldn't listen. That would be politically unpalatable, and when you're trying to foist an unjust war on the American people, you have to dress it up as pretty as you can. But facts are insistent things. Here's the first sentence from a CNN story from Saturday:

"A series of secret U.S. war games in 1999 showed that an invasion and post-war administration of Iraq would require 400,000 troops, nearly three times the number there now."

It gets even more jaw-dropping:

"In the simulation, called Desert Crossing, 70 military, diplomatic and intelligence participants concluded the high troop levels would be needed to keep order, seal borders and take care of other security needs."

Full story here.