Someone please tell the U.S. Army: ONLY COWARDS CUT AND RUN!

[KyuzoGator]

http://snipurl.com/lwfu

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Andrew Krepinevich, a retired Army officer who wrote the report under a Pentagon contract, concluded that the Army cannot sustain the pace of troop deployments to Iraq long enough to break the back of the insurgency. He also suggested that the Pentagon's decision, announced in December, to begin reducing the force in Iraq this year was driven in part by a realization that the Army was overextended.

As evidence, Krepinevich points to the Army's 2005 recruiting slump — missing its recruiting goal for the first time since 1999 — and its decision to offer much bigger enlistment bonuses and other incentives.

"You really begin to wonder just how much stress and strain there is on the Army, how much longer it can continue," he said in an interview. He added that the Army is still a highly effective fighting force and is implementing a plan that will expand the number of combat brigades available for rotations to Iraq and Afghanistan.

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He wrote that the Army is "in a race against time" to adjust to the demands of war "or risk `breaking' the force in the form of a catastrophic decline" in recruitment and re-enlistment.
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[arcane1]

1. hey! Those troops don't, um, support the troops!

or something

[KyuzoGator]

2. Someone tell the U.S. Army that only cowards cut and run.

Don't they understand that there are rich Republicans back home fighting long and hard for their continued deployment? Ungrateful bastards.

Why does the Army hate freedom?

[yourout]

3. To Late

"He wrote that the Army is "in a race against time" to adjust to the demands of war "or risk `breaking' the force in the form of a catastrophic decline" in recruitment and re-enlistment."

The Armed forces are now greatly diminished for at least a generation. When they all return home and word spreads about what Iraq really was it will be easier to part the Red Sea than to get recruits to sign up.

[KyuzoGator]

4. Hmm, kinda like after Vietnam, eh?

Yeah, sign me up for the military! I can't WAIT to be overdeployed in the armpit of the planet with carbombs and snipers all around me and lacking adequate equipment! Sounds jolly!

[yourout]

5. Today I spoke with a friend who's brother is just getting back.

It was either his second or third deployment as a platoon leader of an MP outfit in Bagdad. Out of 11 soldiers that he was with the first time only 4 are left. 7 have been killed or wounded bad enough to be discharged. It has been described as an absolute shit hole and you can trust no-one. One day they were training Iraqis and ended up killing them in a fire fight shortly after. The interperter that was with them turned on them during a fire fight and shot several platoon members before my friend's brother shot the interperter.

It is a civil war and there is no stopping it. We have to get the hell out ...... NOW!

[zbdent]

6. Send in that Ohio Hero

Jean Shit, er, Schmidt . . .