U.S. Military Officials: Bush Trying To Bribe Us To Support Iraq Escalation

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U.S. Military Officials: Bush Trying To Bribe Us To Support Iraq Escalation

Last night on NBC Nightly News, Pentagon correspondent Jim Miklaszewski said that many military officials are “suspicious” of President Bush’s announcement that he plans to increase the size of the armed forces. They believe that “he’s dangling that offer out there in an effort to buy the military support for the option to surge additional American troops into Iraq as if it’s some kind of tradeoff.”

Miklaszewski added that military leaders are also still opposed to an increase in U.S. troops in Iraq, believing it would “be like throwing kerosene on a fire.” Watch it: http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/21/troops-iraq-kerosene/

In the 2004 campaign, Bush repeatedly attacked Sen. John Kerry’s (D-MA) proposal to expand the Army by 40,000 troops. As recently as six months ago, a “Statement of Administration Policy” stated that the administration “opposes increases in minimum active Army and Marine Corps end strengths.” Bush’s plan to send 15,000 to 30,000 more U.S. troops to Iraq has been unanimously opposed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as well as by Gen. John Abizaid, the top U.S. commander in the Middle East.

Continued @ http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/21/troops-iraq-kerosene/

[lancdem]

1. Bush is a fucktard

That's all there is to it.

[malaise]

9. Nope he's just

fugged, delusional and completely out of all options.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Well the other shoe is bout to drop

the chiefs know that they cannot meet enlistment for the current force, so what is left? What bush is doing is not bribing them, but dangling the Draft to see if it is low dangling fruit or not

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5. How many more Generals will 'retire' by the time the other shoe drops?

And will there be any Joint Chiefs left?

I can hear the decider now (as he stomps his feet): "Off with their heads!!!"

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. I'd ask a more worridome question

how far can yuo push these guys until they decide that there is one way to protect their troops: Military coup.

We both know that there is a certain tension in the air, if you get my drift

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. About the only alternative worse than BushCo.

[Double T]

3. The enforcer-in-chief will still try to have it HIS way, just so there is NO QUESTION.......

in ANYONE'S mind that HE is STILL 'the decider'.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. The world's second largest military needs "expansion". For what?

Not to mention the world's best financed and equipped military.

We have 130,000 troops in Iraq. Add to that a few thousand "coalition" forces. Add to that about 130,000 Iraqi military.

We have overwhelmingly technology and unlimited materiel advantage against "insurrectionists" armed with AK-47s, RPG's, and homemade explosives. Yet we've managed to lose the war.

What in the hell is expanding the military here or there supposed to accomplish?

Vietnam redux. Same tactics, same strategy, different idiots. I guess the theory is, "If you can't kill mosquitoes with a sledgehammer, try a bowling ball."

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6. For what? For bush's lies & incompetence and to throw kerosene on the fire.