[ExSoldier]

GERMANY, too? I didn't catch that. That is VERY ominous, or it may be very positive. It's ominous if you realize that Germany is fairly central to deployment by air or airborne insertion to points in the ME. Perfect staging area. But if you anticipate large scale attacks and not much in the way of "help" from our so called allies in the area, then you'd want to pull back maybe all the way to CONUS (Continental United States).

Positive if you consider that just maybe our gov't has gotten their collective heads out of their A$$es and decided that indeed the only way to really stop AQ in our country is to close the borders by military force. The guys from Korea will be especially well trained in those ops because that was their main duty: To patrol the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) under live fire conditions. At night the DMZ becomes a "free fire" zone and anybody may be taken under fire without warning. It happens all the time. In the 1980's a bunch of my buddies ran extremely successful ambush ops over there.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

see my post 1930

[austingirl]

I heard something about having these troops go to Poland - one of our real allies. That would be just as good a location for ME staging. Let's take our money out of Germany and reward our allies.

[angcat]

I was hoping Bush was sending them home to put them on the boarder. Wishfull thinking?

[Cindy]

"GERMANY, too? I didn't catch that. That is VERY ominous, or it may be very positive."

OPINION-SPECULATION: I think it is both.