You still don't get that this isn't a NATO set-piece war won by more men and more armor, but an intel war of patience and we are doing it exactly the right way---if all the chicken littles don't stop us before we complete the job. As for the "werewolves," it took FIVE YEARS in Germany to get rid of these people, and that's with the Russkies having half the country.
As for your IDIOTIC comment about tax cuts, I don't know how people can continue to be SO STUPID. Federar revenue, based on the last IRS stats, show that revenue has RISEN after the tax cuts.
He absolutely did -- you missed the quote last year. "On the cheap" is a verbatim quote from Rumsfeld's lips to our ears.
You ignore the fact that NOT ONE, I repeat, NOT ONE commander in the field has asked for more troops.
Did I say everyone had to be over there at the same time? No, I'm talking about having more people in the rotation, because our re-enlistment rate is beginning to drop off. No telling how far it'll drop off, but if enlisted men have had a couple of tours over there, I think it's reasonable to expect, unless they're lifer fish, that they might decide to find something else to do if reupping gets them two or three more tours in-country.
Furthermore, just to quibble, the people designing last year's operation wanted more boots, but Bush and Rumsfeld kept sending their eggs back until the operational planners sized the invasion the way Bush wanted it -- cheap.
Why don't you just tell me then what I said wrong?
I said that Bush has absolutely and consistently privileged tax cuts for the investor class above every other policy objective, arguably including the War on Terror since there has been no call to bulk up the military to take on operations in both Afghanistan and Iraq. Afghanistan commanders did have resources sequestered out of their reach because of the Iraq War buildup. Wouldn't it have been nice to fill everyone's pipeline?
I say that, by the way, as a (humble) member of the investor class myself. Presumably someone in Bush's office somewhere is looking at a Laffer Curve. But I think people in New York are looking at numbers, their own numbers, and giving Bush political direction to privilege their current income above national objectives. That is what I am saying.