REPUBLICANS are ENDANGERING national security

[montana500]

Republican policies are harming this nation's ability to protect itself in the war on terror.






http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11009829/

"WASHINGTON - 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"

[obxhead]

1. One word......

DRAFT.....

It is only a "matter of time"

[mom cat]

2. How about 10 months....right after the elections.

[Historic NY]

3. only logical way to sustain a supply of fodder......

then again the army is now offering blood money bonus up to $90000 for certain specialties.