Murtha: "I hear rumors in the Pentagon they're going to extend them to 18 months."

[sabra]

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/bulletin/bulletin_070430.htm

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Murtha, on CBS's Face the Nation also said, "I've visited Ft. Hood, Ft. Bragg and Ft. Stewart. The troops are burned out. They're extending to 15 months? I hear rumors in the Pentagon they're going to extend them to 18 months. They're not going to be able to sustain these deployments. So they're violating every guideline that the military has."

[TwilightGardener]

1. Murtha the Truth-Teller--I am sure the RW smear machine

will start kicking into higher gear against him now.

[acmavm]

2. Let 'em keep sticking it to the military. Maybe then the troops will

answer back, as well as seeing some action out of their families. For those fruitcakes the believe in the 'mission', maybe they'll start to have some doubts.

[endarkenment]

3. They are never coming home.

Wait I read this book! Catch-22, Joseph Heller. Everytime Yossarian came close to completing the required number of missions to get rotated out, they just upped the required number of missions.

[catmandu57]

4. If they keep this shit up

I see two things (1) a mutiny by the armed forces, (2) a draft.