Heavy Troop Deployments Are Called Major Risk

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Washington Post

Senior Army and Marine Corps leaders said yesterday that the increase of more than 30,000 troops in Iraq and Afghanistan has put unsustainable levels of stress on U.S. ground forces and has put their readiness to fight other conflicts at the lowest level in years.

In a stark assessment a week before Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, is to testify on the war's progress, Gen. Richard A. Cody, the Army's vice chief of staff, said that the heavy deployments are inflicting "incredible stress" on soldiers and families and that they pose "a significant risk" to the nation's all-volunteer military.

"When the five-brigade surge went in . . . that took all the stroke out of the shock absorbers for the United States Army," Cody testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee's readiness panel.

He said that even if five brigades are pulled out of Iraq by July, as planned, it would take some time before the Army could return to 12-month tours for soldiers. Petraeus is expected to call for a pause in further troop reductions to assess their impact on security in Iraq.



Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040102444.html?hpid=topnews

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Yep, Bush broke the military!

[frogcycle]

1. "to assess their impact on security in Iraq"

What about OUR freaking security?

Supposedly the best military in the world, but we have so burned it out that if paraguay or somebody wanted to invade, we'd probably have to resort to nukes...

oh, wait...

that's what they want to play with anyway

[angrycarpenter]

2. Cheney says..

How do you like my sig line? Just made it.

[Sam Ervin jret]

3. Petraeus has one job - Iraq, our national security is not his job.

And the guy who's job it is, happens to be an intellectual midget and a moral disgrace who could not care less about "the details" of such things.

Iraq, Iran that's it. God told him so.

And then it's off to do color commentary on the baseball game and then off to sleep like a baby.

It must be so odd to be so detached from both any sense of moral conscience and the realities of the horrors your behaviors have created. But that's our President.

[Zhade]

4. Strangely enough, clinton lauded him.

NT!

[saigon68]

7. Her base (the corporations) demand it

[LynnTheDem]

5. Dontcha just love doing this...

"To point out that our military has been overextended, taken for granted and neglected, that’s no criticism of the military. That is criticism of a president and vice president and their record of neglect."

GEORGE W. bUSH, 2000

Throw the MFers' own words back in his ugly face, but the rightwingnuts are too stupid and too immoral to give a fuck anyways. Just like their hero, George W. bUsh.

Stupidest MFers ever.

[lebkuchen]

6. the recommendation is 12 mo. downrange, 24 mo. home

As stressed as the army is right now, 12m/24m, although better than the current 15+/12-, is still just a spartan remedy, Bush has deteriorated the armed forces that much.

And wouldn't ya know, he never served, nor Cheney, so they're not likely to sympathize considering all the bucks they're making off the backs of those who, as Cheney put it, "volunteered."