Army Too Stretched if Iraq Buildup Lasts
August 19th, 2007 . by TexasFredWASHINGTON (AP) – Sapped by nearly six years of war, the Army has nearly exhausted its fighting force and its options if the Bush administration decides to extend the Iraq buildup beyond next spring.
The Army’s 38 available combat units are deployed, just returning home or already tapped to go to Iraq, Afghanistan or elsewhere, leaving no fresh troops to replace five extra brigades that President Bush sent to Baghdad this year, according to interviews and military documents reviewed by The Associated Press.
That presents the Pentagon with several painful choices if the U.S. wants to maintain higher troop levels beyond the spring of 2008:
_Using National Guard units on an accelerated schedule.
_Breaking the military’s pledge to keep soldiers in Iraq for no longer than 15 months.
_Breaching a commitment to give soldiers a full year at home before sending them back to war.
For a war-fatigued nation and a Congress bent on bringing troops home, none of those is desirable.
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I am going to say this and pull absolutely NO punches in doing so, this is pure, 100% certified, Grade ‘A’ bullshit…
If our military is in THAT bad a shape from fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan at the same time, then we, as a nation, are in a lot deeper shit than we could have EVER imagined and I don’t care WHO gets their knickers in a knot over it, most of the people doing the loudest cheering never carried a rifle into combat and all they know is what they hear from 2nd hand sources…
And unless this news is being put out in an attempt to confuse our enemies there is no excuse for it, the United States that I grew up in was the most powerful nation on earth and no one messed with us, until Vietnam became the utterly despicable symbol of defeat that it was, and there was NO reason for that defeat, other than apathy from the tree hugging libbers and total mismanagement from the resident administrations that Vietnam was conducted under, sounds a lot like Iraq today doesn’t it…
Afghanistan was never a question mark for the American people, we knew that it was the right place at the right time against the right people, Iraq, on the other hand, was a personal vendetta for George Bush, one that has all but destroyed his presidency and seriously wounded the Republican party, and is still a place that Bush tries desperately, every day, to justify to the American people, and he can’t do it…
If our military is bled out that badly you MUST look at the CiC (Bush) and his DoD (think Rummy), Iraq has been the most unnecessary venture this nation has ever sought to undertake, it has cost us over 3,700 lives, God only knows how many wounded, crippled, burned and mutilated young Americans, and the mental problems these troops have, and are expected to have, those wounds will take years to show up in many cases…
We have spent BILLIONS of our tax dollars on a nation that will never stand on it own, not stand as a free nation, we have wasted money, time and materials for nothing, only to be told that OUR military is stretched to the breaking point by Iraq and Afghanistan??
Our military could have been home 3 years ago if they had a CiC that didn’t have his head up his ASS and would listen to advisers that told him the truth instead of listening to those that would fellate him in public, if our military is stretched that thin, it is stretched by the total stupidity exhibited by the Bush administration and their inept handling of this debacle…
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My my, is this deja vu or what? Some time back Fred and I both said that Iraq was not the place to be going at that time.
I also posted extensively about how our conventional forces needed to be expanded, not cut back.
Now, the time has come to pay for the mistakes that our leaders made. It is unfortunate that we cannot send them, or their children over to pay that price. Rather than Fred’s, or my son.
Now, more than ever I am seriously thinking that the damned place might be better as nuclear glass than desert sand.
Next stop, Iran…
I don’t give a shit either, I agree with you 100% GWB has done exactly what you said and with no remorse.
He is destroying this country and it’s a wonder someone other than these sand niggers haven’t tried to do this country harm.
But then again, with a president like George Bush who needs enemies??
We are being invaded by illegals and our national sovereignty is in danger with this NAU.
It’s almost as if this country is being taken over and our entire military is deployed in order to be subtracted from our own national defense intentionally.
I don’t see Iraq as a fight for our freedom, but for theirs. And it’s bullshit.
Sent to defend someone else’s homeland while leaving ours vulnerable. Seemingly, all in the grand scheme of things.
Bush kills his own argument about them following us here with our borders the way they are.
He and his administration and his followers have all but distroyed us and our great nation.
We’re sitting ducks ready to be plucked.
While he’s had us in Iraq our enemies have been meeting together, building bonds together, wiping off their weapons and getting ready to wipe Israel and us off the map.
What side will the world leaders choose, a army of two countries or an army of 50 countries.
Anyone thats stands with GWB is a traitor to the United States of America, IMO.
It’s going to be up to you, me, all of us and a great leader to get us out of the damage this AssHat has gotten us in to.
To see him out fishing when our men and women are dying makes me SICK. He’s a failure and he has failed us and what’s really sad is that he doesn’t give a shit. F— him.
God Bless the United States of America.
That’s the problem Ranando, the blessings are gone. You can thank the queers, atheists, the ACLU, baby killers, globalism, Catholics, appeasers to Islam, and your everyday left wing moonbat of tolerance for that, just to name a few.
Bush a man of faith my ass…
Some of the authors and comment makers in this thread are retired military Officers and Senior NCO’s, Special Forces and other Spec/Ops types and the opinions stated BY those individuals is 100% in line with the owner and operator OF this blog…
If you never carried a rifle into a firefight you ARE entitled to an opinion on this subject just as much as anyone else is, but it won’t be given as much consideration as those that DID carry that rifle or order that operation and so forth…
This comment is made for the benefit of a couple of ‘Army Wives’, the ones that would fellate Bush in public if given the opportunity…
Thank you…
The big draw down of troops started with Clinton after Reagan had rebuilt the military. Some of us warned then that the country could afford the big military and needed it..just in case. Now the just in case has come to pass..
The irony is that if the politically correct sumbitches would fight the war as a war is supposed to be fought…to win..we probably do have enough men and women in uniform. Bombs, bombs, more bombs, dead people in the streets and arms and guts in the trees and blood in the rivers until the Iraqis just give up..but it ain’t gonna happen.