nice to know that my service to this country in the ‘70’s is considered hollow.....
When an article has to resort to using a multitude of single word quotes, it is little more than poorly spun propaganda.
We’re fighting the war with part of the enemy in front of us with mortars and the rest behind us with back-stabbing knives.
We need to bombard their offices - ALL of them, particularly those running for office this go-round - each and every day.
Set up an email, a snail mail, and a phone call for each and every morning - grab your coffee and DO IT each morning.
The only thing they care about is keeping their personal power = let’s let them know it can end. This is the small part we can do to support our troops, many of whom are under fire each and every day - let's remember that when we have our morning coffee. They need to know that WE THE PEOPLE are behind them... We MUST NOT let these traitors pull off another Vietnam
Gen. George Casey said the fight between Congress and the White House over the supplemental funding for Iraq and Afghanistan makes his job more difficult and sends "a terrible signal" to the troops fighting the war.
But the Enemedia decided to focus elsewhere, didn't they?
Memo to Gen. George Casey
Stop whining.
A lot of this signal is generated by the games our federal legislators have been playing with the budget.
Cut backs have already been initiated in a lot of areas in an effort to stay enough ahead of the curve to be able to keep up decent training and war associated logistics flows.
The liberal news media must be freaking out at the prospect of the war being over in Iraq to run these sorts of articles...
Stessfull on the families, sure, stretched, sure, but the troops want to get this WOT over with. And they are willing to do whatever hard work is necessary.
They just need the funding.
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Taking an axe to wasteful military spending would be great, but there's a huge amount of bureaucratic entrenchment that will fight to the absolute bitter end than let itself be reformed. There's a lot the system could do on the inside to rehabilitate itself, but pork, inertia, and territorialism are very hard to overcome.
Either way, it's the guy on the combat patrol who suffers if he can't get spare parts or adequate training. That should be our concern.
Asked about the ongoing dispute between President Bush and the Democratic leaders in Congress over providing $196.4 billion in additional supplemental war funding, Casey stated the obvious that “not having predictable, timely funding makes it harder for me to do my job.” And, he added, “What’s going on now sends a terrible signal to my soldiers and their families.”
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Why isn’t this the topic of all the articles about this briefing? Hmmmm.....
“...will need a steady commitment of increased funding...”
IMHO, Sorry to say that this sounds more like the Democrats (especially when talking about education) than it does about fixing the issues.
fight between Congress and the White House over the supplemental funding for Iraq and Afghanistan makes his job more difficult and sends “a terrible signal” to the troops fighting the war.
Democrats are not loyal to the Troops fighting the war.
Democrats are not loyal to the Troops fighting the war.
Democrats are not loyal to the Troops fighting the war.
Democrats are not loyal to the Troops fighting the war.
Democrats are not loyal to the Troops fighting the war.
Democrats are not loyal to the Troops fighting the war.
Democrats are not loyal to the Troops fighting the war.
Democrats are not loyal to the Troops fighting the war.
Democrats are not loyal to the Troops fighting the war.
Democrats are not loyal to the Troops fighting the war.
I like Gen Casey, I trust Gen Casey, I’m certain Gen Casey is right about the deployment and funding crisin that the army faces.
The right answer is more than just money and optempo, though:
1. First, the force is the wrong size and has been since it was cut from 18 divisions. If we currently had 18 divisions, that would spread the deployments out to once every 3 years. That would be more than sustainable.
2. The current length of deployment is 15 months for active duty. My son-in-law is on one of these deployments, and it isn’t necessary. A deployment need not be for more than 4 months if the Country felt like putting the money behind it. These guys are all so familiar with Iraq by now that they could swap out the people on the same weapons just by flying the personnel in and flying the departing out. They do it with SpecOps all the time.
>>The Army’s top general Tuesday acknowledged that his soldiers and their families are “stretched” and “stressed” by six years of war and will need a steady commitment of increased funding to keep the Army from sliding into the “hollow” force of the 1970s.<<
We also need to attract more volunteers by returning to broad policies that treat soldiers and veterans well.
Our job on the homefront is to pressure the Congress Critters to do what is right, and fund our troops, when they can’t bring themselves to do it on their own.