The DOOFUS didn't so why should we, asks multiply-named Fla R

Rep. C.W. Bill Young, R-Fla., said catastrophe always follows when civilians turn a deaf ear to their military officers.

In the 2003 run-up to the war, Young said in an interview, administration officials dismissed a top Army officer's estimate that securing Iraq would probably require several hundred thousand troops.

“I just don't think that it's a good idea for us here in the Congress to try to manage the conduct of the war,” Young, a military appropriations expert, told his colleagues during a meeting Monday.

Monkey see, monkey do.

Link: Lawmaker: Listen to military on Iraq war - Yahoo! News