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:
