On Monday, Leslie Stahl asked Rick Santorum what we could have done differently in Iraq to make the situation better. Stahl proposed that one option would have been to send in more troops. Rick responded that at the beginning of the invasion of Iraq, just as many "field commanders" wanted fewer troops as wanted more troops.
Rick, of course, wouldn't name any of those commanders. But as you can see from the opening paragraph of this Washington Monthly article, Generals Eric Shinseki and Tommy Franks wanted more troops, while Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz believed fewer troops should be used. Does Santorum consider Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz field commanders?
At the end of the clip Rick says he's "been in many briefings where that's been said," we think he may be getting K Street Project meetings confused with military briefings. Watch the clip:
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He confuses strategic decisions -- number of troops, etc -- with tactical -- how to kill. Then he blames it on the commanders on the ground. He needs to be removed from office and permanently banned from any type of authoritative position anywhere.
He will lose in November.
Just ask the service people who work at the Willow Grove Air Station and are losing their jobs as a direct result of the Senator voting to close them, what they think of Senator Santorum. They have served in Iraq for the last four years and have come home to be let go.
That is how the Senator and Rumsfeld reward their service.