The vast majority of those soldiers, particularly those in the Reservers, are Combat Support and Combat Service Support soldiers. We need more COMBAT brigades, 3 or 4 minimum, to take the load of the combat arms soldiers that are bearing the brunt. We've already realigned artillery and MP soldiers to perform the grunt's work and it's still not enough. It would be foolish to dip any further into CS and CSS units for these soldiers and missions.
And then consider our future requirements that may soon exist outside Iraq?
We're in the robotics age. We aren't fighting WW2 anymore. I'd rather spend an extra $52 billion on autonomous sniper machines, scout vehicles, virtual fences, moving land mines. Machines don't complain to Congress. Rumsfeld was trying to go in this direction.