What I want to know is where are all the badasses who were frothing at the mouth to start this war?
According to Fred Kaplan - writer of "War Stories" for Slate - the Army has a hard time getting 7,000 NEW recruits a year.
That's NEW recruits, not reenlistments:
Guilianni says that we need ten more combat brigades:
"Ten combat brigades translate to 40,000 to 50,000 soldiers. The Army has a hard time recruiting 7,000 new combat soldiers a year. Does Giuliani have any ideas on how to get more?"
Article URL: http://www.slate.com/id/2172285/
Cowards. The people of America had enough information - that it would take several hundred thousand troops to occupy a country the size of Iraq, according to a four-star general - not to start this war but they all knew they would not have to fight it. America is a fraud.
They have sat there and let this thing drag out for five years, they get on the Internet and talk real big. Everything that could go wrong, went wrong, and still they just talk, talk, talk. What big men.
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Here are a couple of responses to this paper that I posted at rightwingnews.com. These people have no class, whatsoever - they are clowns:
Heh trolls are cute
Posted by Christopher_Taylor
September 15, 2007 11:48 AM
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NoSoSmart,
"According to Fred Kaplan - writer of "War Stories" for Slate - the Army has a hard time getting 7,000 NEW recruits a year.
That's NEW recruits, not reenlistments."
You and Fred had better check your sources. To claim that the Army is having difficulty "getting 7,000 NEW recruits a year" is only off by a factor of 10. According to the official DoD Recruiting report, for the 11 months ending on 31 Aug, the Army had recruited 71,987 so far this FY, 102 percent of their goal of 70,500.
I attended a brief by the Army Vice Chief of Staff, General Cody, this week and he stated that all services will probably reach their recruiting goals, with the possible exception of the Air National Guard. They are currently recruiting at 93% of their goal. The Marines (you know, those guys who are "First to Fight") are at 109% of their goal.
It is sad that Staff Sgt. Yance T. Gray and Sgt. Omar Mora died in a TRAFFIC ACCIDENT. Our condolences to their families. Would this have been news if they had not written the od-ed and had died in a TRAFFIC ACCIDENT at Ft Bragg? What about the hundreds of other service members who died in TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS? Aren't they news?
In case you are missing my point, they died in a TRAFFIC ACCIDENT. They could just as easily died in a TRAFFIC ACCIDENT at Ft Bragg, in their home towns, or elsewhere.
You are a fraud. If you are American (which I doubt), you are a traitor. If you aren't American STFU (Shut The Fuck Up).
Posted by A-10
September 16, 2007 9:47 AM
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My nephew is a U.S. Marine, you scumbag, and he REENLISTED. They can extend tours to 15 months and talk about extending them to 18 months and you cowards who started this war would still not go fight it.
Because they were killed in a traffic accident while on duty in Iraq - this makes a difference? The army is a dangerous thing, people get killed all the time in training and exercises. You didn't get in a traffic accident in Iraq simply because you did not put your life on the line. And why not? What is stopping you, loser?
Posted by NoSoIncognito
September 18, 2007 9:44 PM
http://www.rightwingnews.com/mt331/2007/09/john_kerrys_startlingly_dishon.php?comments=show#comment-85018
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And this would break your heart, if you frauds had one:
Why the deaths of Yance T. Gray and Omar Mora are particularly galling.
By Fred Kaplan
On Monday, while Gen. David Petraeus prepared to testify before two House committees about the successes of the surge, seven of his soldiers died when their transport vehicle overturned in a highway accident west of Baghdad.
Two of those soldiers, Staff Sgt. Yance T. Gray, 26, and Sgt. Omar Mora, 28, were part of another group of seven—the seven noncommissioned officers of the 82nd Airborne Division who wrote a brave, well-reasoned op-ed in the Aug. 19 New York Times, calling the prospect of victory "far-fetched" and appraisals of progress "surreal."
It is galling that so many pundits and legislators touted a Times op-ed by two Brookings scholars who spent eight days in Iraq and came away persuaded that the war might be won—but paid virtually no attention to the far more unusual, even unprecedented, op-ed by seven active-duty soldiers still based in Iraq, some on their second or third tour of duty, who dared to step forth and argue otherwise.
http://www.slate.com/id/2173860/
Also:
war stories
Deceptive or Delusional?
Bush's appalling Iraq speech.
By Fred Kaplan
Posted Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007, at 11:42 PM ET
http://www.slate.com/id/2173902/
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