Know what's going to end the Iraq War? Troop Morale...

[Junkdrawer]

That's what did it in Vietnam. Here's what Chomsky said a while back:

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What happened was, the army started falling apart. One of the reasons that the army was withdrawn was because the top military wanted it out of there. They were afraid they were not going to have an army anymore. Soldiers were fragging officers. The whole thing was falling apart. They were on drugs.

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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/15/1448219&mode=thread&tid=25

Now, if you can read between the lines, we have Katie Couric, John McCain and now Rush Limbaugh telling us the majority of troops want us to stay there until the job is finished. Bullshit. The chickenhawks are desperate and they want to make the troops that oppose the war feel that they're a small minority.

Well...

GIs' morale dips as Iraq war drags on

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"The only person I know who believed Iraq was improving was killed by a sniper in May," the blogger, identified only as Alex from Frisco, Texas, said in a separate e-mail.

The Army's suicide rate is at its highest in 23 years: 17.3 per 100,000 troops, compared with 12.4 per 100,000 in 2003, the first year of the war. Of the 99 suicides last year, 27 occurred in Iraq.

The latest in a series of mental health surveys of troops in Iraq, released in May, says 45% of the 1,320 soldiers interviewed ranked morale in their unit as low or very low. Seven percent ranked it high or very high.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-morale25aug25,1,7614004.story?page=1&ctrack=5&cset=true&coll=la-news-a_section

Hmmm...wonder how many gung-ho officers in Iraq are being fragged....