Army Chief of Staff - "Hundreds of Thousands of Troops Needed To Occupy Iraq"

UK Independent News and other sources reported that:

General Eric Shinseki, the army's Chief of Staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that Iraq was "a piece of geography that's fairly significant" and that a post-war force would have to be big enough to maintain safety in a country with "ethnic tensions that could lead to other problems".

The military force required to occupy a post-Saddam Iraq could comprise several hundred thousand troops, far higher than any estimate so far, the US Army's most senior general said.

So much for hunting terrorists.