More Reserve Troops to Be Sent to Iraq

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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is drawing up plans to mobilize more National Guard and Reserve forces for duty in Iraq, in the expectation that too few international troops will be available by early next year, officials said Thursday.

The additional reservists have not been notified because Pentagon planners have yet to decide which units to call on, and there remains a chance that international troops can be used instead.

The extra forces — which could turn out to be a mixture of international troops, active-duty U.S. Marines and National Guard and Reserve soldiers — are to replace active-duty units due to return home.

"There are combat support and combat service support units in the reserve component that probably have not been notified yet," Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at a news conference at the Pentagon with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,100339,00.html
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[Minstrel Boy]

1. Call me a stupid Soviet Canuckistanian, but I always thought

the point of the National Guard was to guard the fucking nation!

And since Lon Cheney's recent sinister BWAA-HA-HA! about an approaching "day of horror," might it not be prudent to keep the National Guard close to home?

[arcane1]

3. lol, Lon Cheney

:D

[Don_G]

2. Dimbo Isn't Thinking Very Well

All those stories waiting to be told to their families and voters all across the nation....

[DemoTex]

4. Bu$h is doing what LBJ knew couldn't be done!

But then again, Bu$h is a stupid little boy with stupid advisors. God help us all!

[young_at_heart]

5. "The world is better off without Saddam"

Bush says this every day and it has become his mantra. The side effects of his "vision" are gaining terrible strength but he has on blinders and says over and over, "The world is better off without Saddam". I guess the soldiers have to tell themselves this "fact"!

[JeebusH]

6. so, it seems that the new UN resolution seems to apply to the U.S. only