Did you know???!!!

[annerevere]

That by the end of this year, almost all of our enlisted men will have done AT LEAST 2 TOURS IN IRAQ? Read on for the real reason we're drawing down troops next summer (at end of piece):

NY Daily News:

Saving U.S. Army
can help save Iraq

By LAWRENCE KORB

In March 2003, when the Army chief of staff, Gen. Eric Shinseki, argued that the Bush administration's position on the number of ground troops necessary to occupy Iraq was grossly inadequate, he was publicly disparaged by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who mistakenly believed we would be greeted as liberators.
But last month, when Army Gens. John Abizaid and George Casey, the top commanders in Iraq, argued that a substantial number of troops could be withdrawn next spring or summer, Rumsfeld was silent. Why? After all, the generals had essentially contradicted statements by President Bush and Rumsfeld that we will remain in Iraq as long as necessary and that there is no timetable for withdrawal. True, the generals conditioned their plan on containing the insurgency and increasing the capability of the Iraqi forces, but as recent events indicate, neither of these conditions are likely to be met anytime soon.

Link: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ideas_opinions/story/335571p-286670c.html

[jimshoes]

1. It will be interesting to see

where the blame eventually falls for this all around failure. And at this point there is no argument that it is anything but a failure.

[Solly Mack]

2. .....

"the active-duty soldiers spend a year in Iraq and at least a year at home before going back." LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL - yeah, if they're lucky.

more like 6 months at home...and again, if they're lucky.

My husband's company left 4-2003, came back 4- 2004 ,then left again 10-2004(fortunately we were gone by then)...and that was SOP



He's dead-on about it destroying the military...