Iraq Troop Buildup Idea Worries Generals

[RedEarth]

WASHINGTON (AP) - A White House laboring to find a new approach in Iraq said Tuesday it is considering sending more U.S. troops, an option that worries top generals because of its questionable payoff and potential backlash. President Bush said he is ready to boost the overall size of an American military overstretched by its efforts against worldwide terrorism.

The military's caution on shipping thousands of additional troops temporarily to Iraq is based on a fear that the move could be ineffective without bold new political and economic steps.

Commanders also worry that the already stretched Army and Marine Corps would be even thinner once the short-term surge ended. Bush's newly expressed interest in making the military larger would have little impact on that worry because it will take much longer to add substantially to the size of the military.

Generals also question whether sending more troops to Iraq would feed a perception that the strife in Iraq is mainly a military problem; in their view it is largely political, fed by economic distress.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061220/D8M49IC00.html

[NVMojo]

1. once again, Bush plays GI Joe with the lives of our soldiers without

talking to the real soldiers ...idiot. Him and Reid too.

[Olney Blue]

2. It's time to end this war. Everyone knows this but the chimp.

[rodeodance]

4. well 'everyone' seems paralized to STOP him.

[Olney Blue]

5. ...at least by peaceful means.

[Wiley50]

3. Since when did Chimpy understand about "Economic Distress"

Guillotine!!!

Guillotine!!!!

Guillotine!!!

Hail To The Chiefs (of staff)!!!

[baldguy]

6. A caller on a local radio show described it this way today:

Bush has taken your diamond ring and intentionally dropped it down the kitchen drain. To retrieve it, he's forced you to stick your arm in the drain. Then he turned on the garbage disposal.

That's the situation we're in now in Iraq.

Now he's trying to convince you that you can still get the ring out if you could just get a little more of your forearm in the drain opening, and he promises that he won't turn the garbage disposal on again.