Well, I do. Here are excerpts from article in ‘American Conservative Magazine” – Do you agree with the conclusions they have come to about Bush and the War in Iraq?
Granted, President Bush never passes up the chance to pose with the troops or express his warm regard for those who serve and sacrifice. But to judge by results rather than posturing, no commander in chief in American history has cared less about the overall health of America’s Armed Forces.
President Bush will hand over to his successor an Army and Marine Corps that are badly depleted and verging on exhaustion. The real surge is not the one that involves sending more U.S. troops to Baghdad. It is the tidal wave of unsustainable demands that are now engulfing America’s ground forces.
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The stress of repeated combat tours is sapping the Army’s lifeblood. Especially worrying is the accelerating exodus of experienced leaders. The service is currently short 3,000 commissioned officers. By next year, the number is projected to grow to 3,500. The Guard and reserves are in even worse shape.
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To sustain the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon has resorted to a variety of management techniques, all of which have the effect of increasing the strains on the force and watering down its quality.
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As the Army depletes its inventory of equipment—some $212 billion worth has been destroyed, damaged, or just plain worn out—the best of what’s left ends up in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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There’s also a second shell game. The Army is incrementally easing its recruiting standards, enlisting thousands of volunteers that the service would previously have classified as unfit.
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Perhaps most troubling is the increase in “moral waivers” issued to would-be recruits with criminal records, a history of drug use, and the like. Between 2005 and 2006, the number of waivers that the Army issued to convicted felons jumped by 30 percent.
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President Bush has nickeled and dimed the nation’s fighting forces to the verge of collapse. Even today he remains oblivious to the basic problem that his administration has confronted for the past four years—too much war and too few soldiers.
The president’s attitude seems to be: sure, the military is overstretched, but let’s see if we can stretch it just a little bit more. Perhaps he figures that when the rubber band breaks, dealing with the consequences will be someone else’s problem.
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Ok darlin’, I’ll agree with you too much war and too few soldiers for what we’ve got going on. But it’s a little unfair to say Bush is the reason the military is short handed. Bush has the same amount of troops he had when he took office. And equipment is funded more now than is was when we started helping out in Afghanistan.
Do a little research and I think you will find the current troop strength is on a fraction of what his Dad had to operate with during the first Gulf War. It wouldn’t surprise me to find we had more trooops deployed to the Gulf then than we do in the entire military now. There were heavy cuts during the Clinton administration. Where do you think the budget surplus came from? Cuts in the military. Don’t get me wrong I’m not blaming Clinton exclusively. Congress had a hand in the cuts as well.
All the supplemental appropriations he’s been asking for have been to cover operating costs (fuel, parts, replacement equipment, etc) for the Iraq operation.
We weren’t prepared for what we’ve gotten into. It’s taken too long to complete. Mistakes have been made. But then this is war and the first casualty of battle is the plan. Actually the battle plan wend as expected. It’s what came afterwards that went to hell.
The plan was for us to be out of there in less than a year. That was too optomistic. After WW2 things went well because we understood the cultures. We did not and do not understand the middle eastern culture. I was all for taking out Saddam and company. I was (and still am) also for getting out of Iraq ASAP.
Bush doesn’t have two brain cells to rub together. He has been bailed out of everything by his father.
I think the real problem is that this time he has to prove to his
father that he is a success. What a shame the destruction of our country because he has a complex.
us military must stop the so called stop loss policy! it’s a virtual draft of us servicemen (and women)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-loss_p…
A little historical reality check. Troop rotation is a new thing. In the Civil War, World War I, and World War Ii the troops stayed until the job was done. They would have in Korea but when Ridgeway took over for te fired MacArthur he instituted the troop rotation, which was then kept for Vietnam.
In previous wars if troops were done they left the service from the battle zones. This was a problem Washington dealt with over and over.
That being said, even when this war is over it will take about 5 years of a large defense spending bills to repair just the equipment damage to the military and bring it back to what it was. Personel wise, perhaps longer. He may have permantly damaged recruitment efforts, or at least for the forseeable future.
Like any spoiled child Bush is leaving all his mess to his successor to clean u.
Horrendous that he has so much power and uses only to propagate his few ideas and not for the betterment of the nation at large.
In many ways he makes NIXON look like a novice when it comes to self serving narcissism.
first of all, how dare you knock someone who saves lives. we are over there because we need to be. did you lose anyone in 9-11? i didn’t think so. i did. 32 to be exact. so don’t tell me that it’s unjustified because that’s a load of crap. sure people die in war. it’s kinda the nature of the beast. but let me tell you something else. we all sign that contract and we all know the sacrifices we might have to make. all people like you do is discrace those who died and who will die. i for one will not really care how many of the enemy dies. they killed a crap load of my innocent americans!! what part of that don’t you get? so instead of knocking a man who took an evil dictator out of office and killed his sorry ***, why don’t you get a little more fired up about the innocent people of this country that lost their lives un-knowingly. not the ones that signed up for it. leave the president alone and let him do his job. he is an awesome president and we are gonna be in a world of crap if and when a pansy *** democrat that is gonna take our troops out of the middle east gets elected. you make me sick!! where’s the fight in you? where’s your patriotism? oh i get it, you’re a damn communist.
Wow! wish Id said that.
heck, i thought it was well known already.
PS. I wonder what do to about all this extra sunscreen I have laying around the house. Who should I ask about that?
Yes, for the most part. The Bush Machine, has it’s hands ever stirring the pot, however. Just watch for some radical things in the next year from them!
Have you ever heard, witnessed, read about any other President of the U.S., sending the military into a war which should have never begun in the first place, letting them fight an enemy they cannot even identify, sending them back with very short periods of recuperation, and sending in a “insurgence” which are really the same military personnel who just got home from the fighting? And, on and on, and on.
and you would be thrilled if we all bought into the “suggestion” that Mr. Bush alone has done all this, wouldn’t you? Well, that is simply NOT the case! Rant all you want but it carries no weight anymore , cryptoJG!