So reports Bob “EVIL” Novak about the troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Bush plan was to have the number of troops down to 30,000 by the end of summer 2003. It almost sounds like a bad joke, since there are currently 135,000 troops in Iraq, and that number is considered inadequate for the job.

When the generals were made aware of the (badly missed) target of 30,000 it was perfectly reasonable for them to be outraged. This whole war has been a catastrophic miscalculation by the Bush administration… What’s one more?

Please note that Overspun runs everything Bob Novak says through an intense series of bullshit detectors before posting. This one came up clean except for a gratuitous spin on Ted Kennedy’s recent Iraq/Vietnam comments.