http://donklephant.com/2006/12/19/joint-chiefs-no-more-troops/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:59:03 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://donklephant.com/2006/12/19/joint-chiefs-no-more-troops/comment-page-1/#comment-163829 BenG Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:38:37 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/12/19/joint-chiefs-no-more-troops/#comment-163829 Mr Gardner; Your "Holding out hope for the W.H. getting their act together" may be admirable but not wise. A Democrat in congress recently said ( I fortet his name,sorry) that talking to this administration about the nations most important issues is a waste of time. They go into each 'debate' with their minds already made up, knowing the end game, just not sure how to get what they need to arrive there. Secondly, the pentagon and JCOC's prediction about what would happen after the U.S. surge is not too clairvoyant. It's what's been happening over and over again for the last three years ! Finally, I thought much of these 30,000 more troops were largely coming from exhisting deployed troops. If true, wouldn't this add further stress on our overextended military ? Mr Gardner; Your “Holding out hope for the W.H. getting their act together” may be admirable but not wise. A Democrat in congress recently said ( I fortet his name,sorry) that talking to this administration about the nations most important issues is a waste of time. They go into each ‘debate’ with their minds already made up, knowing the end game, just not sure how to get what they need to arrive there.
Secondly, the pentagon and JCOC’s prediction about what would happen after the U.S. surge is not too clairvoyant. It’s what’s been happening over and over again for the last three years !
Finally, I thought much of these 30,000 more troops were largely coming from exhisting deployed troops. If true, wouldn’t this add further stress on our overextended military ?

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