NY Times: A Pentagon Plan Would Cut Back G.I.'s in Germany

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/04/politics/04MILI.html?th

Officials said they expected the major decisions on the rearrangement to be made in a month or two. But the main direction of the Pentagon plan appears to be set.

"Everything is going to move everywhere," Mr. Feith said a year ago, as the Bush administration was beginning to develop the details of its plan. "There is not going to be a place in the world where it's going to be the same as it used to be."

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Proponents of Mr. Rumsfeld's plan see little merit in keeping a large number of forces in Germany now that the cold war is over. They argue that the United States would be better off withdrawing most of them and establishing new bases in Southeastern Europe, from which forces could be rushed if there was a crisis in the Caucasus or the Middle East.

((Halliburton's next 'get rich quick' scheme!))

[LittleApple81]

1. Love your name. And you hit it on the nail. Another thing: (I read

about this some time ago) they will not provide facilities for the troops to take their families along. So they will be by themselves, and the "host" countries won't get the moola they think they will get.

Nothing like making the troops as unhappy, poor, and resentful as possible.

[bluedeminredstate]

2. This isn't something they should be doing

at the end of an administration's term. They know they might not be here to see this plan through. Clinton would not have done something like this five months from an election...

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