Taking the Global Test

There has been much bru-ha-ha lately concerning Paul Bremer's remarks that initially there weren't enough troops on the ground during the beginning of the invasion of Iraq. The Belmont Club has an excellent deconstruction of the interest in Bremer's remarks and their supposed value to the Democrats.

In fact there were plenty of soldiers during the invasion, but the Fourth Infantry Division was busy cooling its heels waiting for Turkey's (and by extension the international community's) permission to invade from their southern border with Iraq, and subsequently had to make an end-around the Mediterranean and up through the bottleneck of Kuwait.

These soldiers were busy taking the global test.