Troop Levels

For years now I have read about how President Bush is screwing up mightily because he had too few troops in Iraq. Then we started reading that he has too many. There doesn't seem to be any particular political party clarity on this phenomenon. Politicians of both parties have opined on this subject with all certainity that they are right. Most of the discussion now is on whether or not we are reducing levels too fast or not fast enough. Sure some on the extremes of the Democratic left wing say we should just get out, but others, especially those in the press seem convinced that removing 20,000 would catastrophic and others say 30,000 would not be enough. Bush seems to be willing to let the Generals actually in Iraq make the determination and if he is really doing that, it seems to me we are going to be more correct than if some wind-bag politician or some columnist looking for a safe way to venture into an area where they have no expertise makes the decision.
I suspect that if Bush brought one of his critics from the political left into the White House, turned on the cameras and asked him or her to state right now what troop levels should be for the year ahead, they would wet their pants and turn hemming and hawwing into a comedy act.