- Murtha:The American people are way ahead of me on this....duuuuh!
Posted on 06/21/2006 6:04:12 PM PDT by BlueOneGolf
BALAD, Iraq — The U.S. military has begun sending thousands of battered Humvees and other war-torn equipment home as more Iraqi units join the fight against insurgents and American units scheduled for Iraq duty have their orders canceled.
In the last four months, the Army has tagged 7,000 Humvees and 17,000 other pieces of equipment to be shipped to the United States to be rebuilt. They then will be distributed among active and reserve units at home, or possibly returned to equip Iraqi security forces.
The military said the shipments will result in a reduction in the amount of U.S. equipment in Iraq, a cut made possible because the area patrolled by American troops is shrinking. The move also anticipates that the number of American troops in Iraq will decline.
Countrywatch:Iraq
"This is all a byproduct of Iraqi forces accepting battle space and U.S. forces being displaced, which has allowed our government to decide not to send more forces," said Col. Jack O'Connor, commander of the U.S. Army Materiel Command's sustainment brigade in Iraq.
In one such move Monday, the U.S. Army's 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, based in Fort Hood, Texas, transferred responsibility for more than 235 square miles just north of Baghdad to the Iraqi Army's 9th Division...
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But it's all Bush's fault...
Note well that the plan all along was to draw down as the Iraqi forces came online. ANY reduction will now be spun as a capitulation to the superior wisdom (barf) of the RATs.
See? We're taking Kerry's advice and following his plan and things are starting to go right. He's a genius!
Orders are being canceled because the draft is coming soon.
Sometimes, I have to pretend to be a liberal to use my imagination to its full potential.
This is the longest day of the year. It's also the longest day in years (for leftists). Heh heh heh...
That was the rats plan all along...to take credit for something that was to happen anyways...
The same place that announcements for deployment yesterday were hidden. Go figure.
We're also bringing the troops home. We had 160,000 there in November. Now there are only 130,000.
But the government won't talk about it because they don't want to give the wrong impression to the terrorists.
That I got in email. Guess I need to re-read my inbox.
PING!!!
That's the joy of being on all sides of every issue: regardless of what happens you can always take credit for it.
We just can't leave our garbage sitting around in Iraq for 50 years, so of course we need to bring it home.
Are they sending the equipment to Okinawa? sarc/
These people, (the Legacites) are so ignorant. They have no idea how the military works.
What dumbsh!ts.
Of course military vehicles wear out and need rebuilding.
ping
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