Rumsfeld Says Military Not Overextended

AP via Yahoooo ^ | January 25, 2006 | LOLITA C. BALDOR,

[ARealMothersSonForever]

It would appear that Secretary Rumsfeld has more information at his disposal than the AP "military writer".

[dhs12345]

If it were true, it would be foolish of Rumsfeld to admit it.

Lots of terrorists and countries out there would find it useful to know that our military is overextended.

[SF Republican]

In addition, it's battle hardened this is an interesting point to make, and true. When I was in the Marine Corps it was pretty quite, I am sure the guys today have a little different row to hoe.

[ExcursionGuy84]

"The Don" Rumsfeld does not take kindly to stabs aganst the US Armed Forces, I perceive.

[ExcursionGuy84]

When I was in the Marine Corps it was pretty quite...

quite???

[TheDon]

"In addition, it's battle hardened. It's not a peacetime force that has been in barracks or garrisons."

Something our enemies, and potential enemies are no doubt thinking about.

[ASA Vet]

It's still quite pretty.

[ExcursionGuy84]

As far as the Female ratio within the US Marines goes, Yes it is (quite "pretty").

[marlon]

"Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Secretary of Defense William Perry, both members of the Clinton administration, were credited among the authors of the study that congressional Democrats released.

Really no need to read any futher than this. If there were two less qualified people to judge military capabilities I would vote for Bevis and Butthead and even then it would be a close call.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

He said there were over 1.4 million active U.S. troops, and some 2 million — counting National Guard and Reserve units — of which only 138,000 people were in Iraq.

The other 3,262,000 must be stuck in the Afghanistan quagmire. /dripping sarc

[ExcursionGuy84]

...an increased emphasis and spending on Special Operations forces and intelligence operations results from lessons learned in Iraq.

Something tells me that we shall be tested really soon upon what was learned in those lessons.

[SF Republican]

Maybe I should say relative to bullets flying!

[Howlin]

Read my tagline; he said it today to one of those reporters.

[bnelson44]

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Secretary of Defense William Perry, both members of the Clinton administration, were credited among the authors of the study that congressional Democrats released.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

I heard that. This report also ommitted the statement "that is just plain wrong".

[ExcursionGuy84]

....the Army cannot sustain the pace of troop deployments to Iraq long enough to break the back of the insurgency.

Of Course not. It's the IRAQI Forces that, in the end, shall be the finishing blow to the Terrorists.

Once they are fully equipped, capable, battle-tested, experienced and integrated-by-units, they'll be a lean & mean fighting machine in defense of their country.

[conservative blonde]

"Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Secretary of Defense William Perry, both members of the Clinton administration, were credited among the authors of the study that congressional Democrats released."

This sentence says it all. Who would believe these people? This is just something the DemocRATS are trying to bring up to again embarrass the Administration. These people are nasty and they never let up on the evil they do.

[manic4organic]

That's good. They may have to deploy to Iran soon.

[kimosabe31]

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Secretary of Defense William Perry, both members of the Clinton administration, were credited among the authors of the study that congressional Democrats released.

Apparently the congressional Democrats hired these two bird brains to do a "hit" piece on the Bush military. I think we can assume that it's a biased piece of work.

Since we are fighting in Iraq in order to minimize the amount of fighting we'll eventually have to do on our own soil, I would feel better with about 500,000 troops on the ground conducting some big ops killing 5,000-10,000 al qaeda a day. That probably means the military draft which I'm all for.

[dsc]

"He said there were over 1.4 million active U.S. troops, and some 2 million — counting National Guard and Reserve units — of which only 138,000 people were in Iraq."

Okay. How many of those are trigger pullers?

Combat is a young man's job, always has been. You can't take some 45 year old reservist, hand him a rifle and a pack, and expect him to keep up with the 20 year olds.

And I don't care what kind of sci-fi-come-true gadgets you have; at some point you need to take and hold ground, with trigger pullers.