CBS: Military Tells Bush It Has Only 9,000 Troops Available For ‘Surge’

[donsu]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/05/report-military-tells-bush-it-has-only-9000-troops-available-for-surge/


A State Department official leaked word this week that President Bush is considering sending “no more than 15,000 to 20,000 U.S. troops” to Iraq. “Instead of a surge, it is a bump,” the official said.

This claim was bolstered last night by CBS’s David Martin, who reported that military commanders have told Bush they are prepared to execute a troop escalation of just 9,000 soldiers and Marines into Iraq, “with another 10,000 on alert in Kuwait and the U.S.”

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[aquart]

1. Which pretty much tells the world we are tapped out.

So George is now leaving us publicly naked to our enemies.

We ain't no superpower no mo'.

[Monkeyman]

2. Yep not one combat ready force at home to protect

[TayTay]

8. Does this include Guard units and the Reserve forces?

I know a lot of Reserve people in their 40's who got called up to serve in Iraq and have since gotten out of the service because they can't take the deployments at this stage of their lives.

Isn't the military rushing the training and lowering the standards to meet the current deployment needs? This, more than anything else, might just break the voluntary military.

(And who is going to pay to replace all the equipment that belongs to State National Guard unites but had been used up in Iraq?)

[Monkeyman]

11. Senator Durbin been yelling about the equipment

Reserves are just about gone. Hell DOD tried calling the dead back in. Lowered standards is not the word for it. If you compare them to those of use who served they are 4F's

[tabasco]

7. I look forward to the day we no longer consider ourselvers a "superpower."

Or no longer feel compelled to be one. Military might is not the solution in the nuclear age. No foreign army will ever reach American soil and our army should not be occupying a country that was not a threat to us. I supported military action in Afghanistan or anywhere else to shut down terrorist training camps and catch Bin Laden and then come home. But the Iraq invasion / occupation was / is a baldfaced oil grab and I CONDEMN the Democrats who voted to give madman Bush a loaded gun. Engaging our military in a war for corporate profits has destroyed our goodwill in the world and devastated our national security. We will be paying for DECADES for the stupidity and greed of the neocon corporate cabal. The moral cowardice and/or extreme bad judgment of the Democrats who voted for the IWR should be a disqualifier for higher office.

[aquart]

13. What tabasco said.

[aquart]

14. So the erection is barely a little chubby?

Dear me, how.......inadequate.

[Aristus]

3. Reminds me of Hitler in the bunker; crazily deploying troops

and whole armies that existed nowhere but in his mind.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. Eeek! The world's second largest military is outta cannon-fodder!

Quick! Double the "defense" budget!

[Bob3]

5. what about all those troops in Korea? They are just sitting there.

Sarcasm off.

[madeline_con]

6. I wonder how long it will take to come up with a "NEW PLAN"...

and can Monkey Boy do it before the State of the Union Address?

tick tick tick.....................

[rodeodance]

9. Jr's "plan' will be out by then.

[rodeodance]

10. how long this 'short term surge" will last is the question NO one is

saying.

[madeline_con]

12. Probably becuase, like everything else....

they're flying by the seat of their pants and haven't the first clue.