General Pace & Joint Chiefs: Another Troop Buildup in Iraq Possible

[The Cleaner]

BAGHDAD - The U.S. military's top general said Monday that the Joint Chiefs of Staff is weighing a range of possible new directions in Iraq, including, if President Bush deems it necessary, an even bigger troop buildup.

Making no predictions, Marine Gen. Peter Pace revealed that he and the chiefs of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force are obliged to consider various troop-level scenarios before September, when Bush will receive an assessment of the Iraq situation from his top commander there, Gen. David Petraeus.

"We're (doing) the kind of thinking that we need to do and be prepared for whatever it's going to look like two months from now," he said in an interview with two reporters traveling overnight with him from Washington aboard an Air Force C-17 cargo jet.

"That way, if we need to plus up or come down" in numbers of troops in Iraq, then the details will have been studied and the military services will be in position to carry out whatever policy Bush chooses, Pace said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070716/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq... ;_ylt=Apj8zl1BIXV9f.2syQN7oQjMWM0F

[acmavm]

1. Good luck with that one boys.

[Danieljay]

2. This is insane... when will this end? n/t

[spanone]

3. Gen. Peter Pace is a politician wrapped up in generals garb.

The U.S. military's top general said Monday that the Joint Chiefs of Staff is weighing a range of possible new directions in Iraq, including, if President Bush deems it necessary, an even bigger troop buildup.

[jojo54]

4. We gotta have 'em close by when we bomb Iran,

doncha' know.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

5. Peter "Gotmykneepadsson" Pace is a puppet.

All the real Generals have "retired".

[Faux pas]

6. I think we've run out of new recruits and reserves to send. Guess

they've found more money for the blackwater gang. And, if that's the case, send the non mercenaries home!