Pentagon Study Shows Bush is Destroying the Army

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Yet another study that documents the American military is being over utilized and that the strength of the Active Army is too small for the current deployments. In the 2000 Campaign Bush acknowledged the Military was too small and that was BEFOR the Iraq war. After becoming Commander-in-Chief he ignored the needs of our military and made the problems even greater.

The study concludes the Army is a thin green line that could snap. There are still some that are actually looking at yet another flash point in Iran.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/25/army.study.ap/index.html
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Stretched by frequent troop rotations to Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army has become a "thin green line" that could snap unless relief comes soon, according to a study for the Pentagon. Andrew Krepinevich, a retired Army officer who wrote the report under a Pentagon contract, concluded that the Army cannot sustain the pace of troop deployments to Iraq long enough to break the back of the insurgency. He also suggested that the Pentagon's decision, announced in December, to begin reducing the force in Iraq this year was driven in part by a realization that the Army was overextended.
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
Rumsfeld came out today and said it was all a lie, even though it was a non-partisan report commissioned by the Pentagon.
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
Rumsfeld came out today and said it was all a lie


Ah!... so that's what he said.

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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
The proof is in the recruiting and retention and the fact that troops have had two and three tours. Bush himself said the Army was too small BEFORE the Iraq War. Rummy has his heard up his butt. Many senior military have said that the do not agree with him and things like stop loss, over use of the Guard and reserve prove Rummy is out to lunch. He is dangerous and the policies we are following will have long term negative consequences!
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
Just some things col always leaves out.

He added that the Army is still a highly effective fighting force and is implementing a plan that will expand the number of combat brigades available for rotations to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Col. Lewis Boone, spokesman for Army Forces Command, which is responsible for providing troops to war commanders, said it would be "a very extreme characterization" to call the Army broken. He said his organization has been able to fulfill every request for troops that it has received from field commanders.

Michael O'Hanlon, a military expert at the private Brookings Institution, said in a recent interview that "it's a judgment call" whether the risk of breaking the Army is great enough to warrant expanding its size.

"I say yes. But it's a judgment call, because so far the Army isn't broken," O'Hanlon said.


Col, once again you dramatize everything. Political hack.
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Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
OUR Commanding general in Iraq just said, U S Troops are stretched and is in agreement with the Pentagon study and in direct opposition with Rummy. I will believe the Generals over Rummy or Bush.
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
OUR Commanding general in Iraq just said, U S Troops are stretched and is in agreement with the Pentagon study and in direct opposition with Rummy. I will believe the Generals over Rummy or Bush.


I wouldn't, basically because they are supposed to be reporting things like this "directly" to Sec Rumsfeld. So he "should" have up to date and pertinent information and a complete picture. If he is operating on "bad" info then the general is NOT doing his job. I mean "christ" col, this is stuff you should already know. Not stuff that an ex-enlisted man should have to tell you. Or is your blind hatred of President Bush that great?
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
You are the most pessimist fellow I have ever read. Do you have high blood pressure? High cholesterol? Recent divorce? Man, you need a hobby.

You're really trying to blame the size, or lack of, on our current President? You should quit taking your Alzheimers' medication, it would make you feel better. If you really want to place blame, try our last two Presidents, Clinton and Bush 41, and our preceeding Congress. You portray our President as this almighty, omniscient, omnipotent being in charge of Everything, as if he were a god. Were you born on a turnip truck?

I, and every other veteran and current service member appreciate the vote of confidence you have in our Commander-in-Chief, and in our men and women who selflessly volunteered to do this job. It truly is heart warming. My advice to you, Colonel, stick to talking about bovine flatulence, it's much more entertaining. And it doesn't require true intellect.