More body bag fillers (er, Marines) needed in "terror" war.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

The Few, The Proud,.....the expendable. Just so the politicians and generals can proceed with a lost war and save face. Yessiree, get your name chiseled on a real nice monument.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061122/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/marines_iraq_afghanistan_5

At a breakfast meeting with reporters, Gen. James Conway also warned that it could take years to adequately train and equip the Iraqi security forces — longer, perhaps, "than the timeline that we probably feel ... our country will support."

"This is tough work, it doesn't happen overnight," and patience by the American people will be needed, he said. On the plus side, he said Marines he's talked to in recent days are encouraged by the progress they are seeing among Iraqi forces.

Conway said the current pace of Marine rotations to Iraq — seven months there and seven-to-nine months at home — is limiting other types of training that units can receive and could eventually prompt Marines to leave the service.

Conway, who took on the Marines' top job just eight days ago, said there are two ways to deal with the ongoing stress on the Marines: "One is reducing the requirement, the other is potentially growing the force for what we call the long war."

There are currently about 180,000 active duty Marines. Just last week, the top U.S. commander in the Middle East said about 2,200 more of them were headed to Iraq's volatile western Anbar province in a short-term effort to shore up U.S. combat power there. The commander, Gen. John Abizaid, also told Congress last week that the Army and Marine Corps are not big enough to sustain a substantial increase in Iraq, although he said adding 20,000 troops for a short period was possible.

[bobbolink]

1. What happened to your fucking "cakewalk", General???!!!

"This is tough work, it doesn't happen overnight,"

Then take off your bulletproof vest, and get out in front of those IEDs, you clown!!

:nuke:

[Twist_U_Up]

2. considering 9-11 was an inside job....it doesnt surprise me

I mean over 6000 lives ..............I guess thats thats the price of unlimited oil.

Fuck these fascists........ 9-11 was an inside job.
Twist

[MADem]

3. Body Bags. Before the war, DOD procured something like fifty eight thousand

body bags, and several thousand aluminum personnel transfer tubes (the metal coffins--they are reusable, kind of like a heavy duty camera/electronics case--you put the body bag inside it, when it gets to where the body can be outprocessed, it's washed out and returned for reuse).

Depending upon how many of those bags they gave to the Iraqis, and how long they want to keep screwing around with this pointless and dreadful misadventure, they may want to place a new order.

[Monkeyman]

4. This is sick but you got to know

Stamped on the Coffins is do not open body parts. I came home with a fallen Brother from Nam. His mother open it aways. She passed out in there was just a leg.

[MADem]

5. It depends on the situation. Many are quite "viewable" They will tell you

in the documentation accompanying the remains. Some family members DO insist, even when it's pretty rough. This happens, however, at the civilian funeral home that accepts custody of the remains on behalf of the family, not at Dover where the remains are processed after landing from abroad.

As you of course know, it is a tough situation for an escort when the family wants to see something difficult like that.

Nowadays, with the body armor and Kevlar, we're getting back more 'viewable' remains. At the end of the day, though, viewable or not, those kids are still dead.

[MS Liberal]

6. Your title sucks!!!!!