Retired Generals Slam Bush's Iraq Plan: "Too Little And Too Late"... "A Fool's Errand"...

NY Times   |  JOHN HOLUSHA   |   January 18, 2007 03:57 PM

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A panel of retired generals told a United States Senate committee today that sending 21,500 additional troops to Iraq will do little to solve the underlying political problems in the country.

"Too little and too late," is the way Gen. Joseph P. Hoar, a former chief of the Central Command, described the effort to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The additional troops are intended to help pacify Baghdad and a restive province, but General Hoar said American leaders had failed to understand the political forces at work in the country. "The solution is political, not military," he said.

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