Joseph Galloway: Rumsfeld and Bush have broken the Army (Knight Ridder)

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http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/12884423.htm


Posted on Wed, Oct. 12, 2005

Army is broken and in need of repair

By JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY
Knight Ridder Newspapers

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In that early fall two years ago, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was still running victory laps and the words of his boss, President George W. Bush, were still ringing: "Bring `em on!"

Sadly, those two were, and still are, in charge.

Now they've broken the Army, and after this administration is history, it will take 12 or 15 or 20 years to repair the damage it's inflicted on an institution that our country desperately needs in a century as dangerous as this one.

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I say this because we don't jump when Mr. Rumsfeld yells frog, and I look at the evidence that accumulates day by day. I hear this from other generals, active and retired: The U.S. Army is utterly broken and in need of immediate repair.

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1. Self-delete, after adding paragraph I'd mentioned to the OP.