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2007-04-12 Home Front: WoT

Pentagon Orders Longer Tours for Soldiers in Iraq

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Posted by Fred 2007-04-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Again, Dubya is in "FORTRESS ME" mode - he's NOT gonna pullout or re-deploy or "end the war now" as anti-US OWG, 2008-obsessed DemoLefties and anti-US international agendists PC/PDeniably want. Dubya & Admin are ENTRENCHING FOR BEYOND 2008 > 2008 = Clinton 90's - Dems wanna give full credit to themselves in case Radical Islam fails to initiate PDeniable, "justified" Amer Hiroshima(s), i.e. elect a PRO-ISOLATIONIST, PRO-RETREAT, PRO-ANTI US OWG-SWO DEM POTUS BY BLOWING UP WASHINGTON DC + USG, etal.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-04-12 00:48|| 2007-04-12 00:48|| Front Page Top

#2 This also defers the cost of readying and deploying replacements while hoping that Congress will eventually get its act together and pass the supplemental.

Posted by RWV 2007-04-12 02:22|| 2007-04-12 02:22|| Front Page Top

#3 I hope the brass remembers that there is a limit on how much people can take.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-04-12 14:45|| 2007-04-12 14:45|| Front Page Top

#4 I hope the brass remembers that there is a limit on how much people can take.

What's the number Badanov? 40 days of sustained combat?

Posted by Shipman">Shipman 2007-04-12 17:42|| 2007-04-12 17:42|| Front Page Top

#5 The US armed forces must be enlarged to deal with the multitude of foreign fronts where radical Islamists present a threat, and that holds true even if we were to "declare victory" and abandon Iraq today.

Posted by Grumenk Philalzabod0723 2007-04-12 19:31|| 2007-04-12 19:31|| Front Page Top

#6 I hope the brass remembers that there is a limit on how much people can take.

Managed properly, 15 month deployments shouldn't be a problem. US troops have historically been on longer deployments than that.

Most of the impact would be later on, in the form of reduced re-elistments.

Posted by Pappy 2007-04-12 20:10|| 2007-04-12 20:10|| Front Page Top

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