A.P.: U.S. Army making plans to keep current Iraq troop level through 2010

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Martial Law is only another 9/11 away.

Maybe the Resistance will change their plans

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exception.

The US and the marines have kept dozens of thugish uniformed military dictators in power.

Unless of course the military has forgotten about civilian control of the armed forces, or the Bush crowd is planning on being in power forever.

Are there enough war lovers left to keep the gop in power?

Published: Monday May 22, 2006

LONDON -- Tony Blair and George Bush will announce that they are to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq at a summit in Washington as early as this week, RAW STORY has learned.

The process has already been carefully choreographed in an attempt to bolster the popularity of both Bush and Blair who have suffered domestically for their handling of the war.

The scope of the phased withdrawal, which will see the 133,000 US force levels cut to around 100,000 by the end of the year and British numbers almost halved, has already been agreed, one senior defence source said.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Report_Bush_Blair_to_announce_phased_0522.html

So when will McCain blame this on Clinton?

And they were proven wrong.

by the fall of 2003.

That's a pretty long cake.

"They'll greet us with open arms."

"It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."

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>>Appearing with Casey, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said he and other senior Pentagon officials are still studying how the military might keep up the current pace of Iraq deployments without overtaxing the Army and Marine Corps, which have borne the brunt of the conflict. Rumsfeld said one option is to make more use of the Air Force and Navy for work that normally is done by soldiers and Marines.
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At his news conference, Rumsfeld was asked whether he bears responsibility for what has gone wrong in Iraq or if the military commanders there are to blame.

"Of course I bear responsibility," he replied in apparent exasperation. "My Lord, I'm secretary of defense. Write it down."
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_IRAQ?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME

His date has been extended for 6 months. He was coming home in Dec. . It looks like stop loss will go into effect

voted in with the purple fingers....

What if they say to America get the hell out...? It is obvious to the world that America is an occupier.....

And what troops are they going to use....our men and women in the military are tired and broken.....we have to get them home.....

"A.P.: U.S. Army making plans to keep current Iraq troop level through 2020."

QUAGMIRE!!!!!!

This announcement ain't gonna help the Pukes at all come November.

Maybe the military wants a way out (of Iraq) sooner rather than later?

Schoomaker spoke as the U.S. military death toll in Iraq rose to at least 2,750 since the war's start in March 2003. On Wednesday, the U.S. command said three U.S. Marines and two soldiers were killed in fighting there.

In another indication of the burden the Army expects to bear, Schoomaker said he believes the Army will need $138.8 billion in 2008, nearly $40 billion more than its planned expenditures for the 2007 budget year, which began Oct. 1. Schoomaker's proposed figure is nearly $25 billion more than the initial amount discussed by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.

Schoomaker said the Army needs the money to modernize the force, continue needed research and development programs, and keep enough combat brigades in the field, while allowing adequate time for training and restoring equipment between deployments.

The Bush administration is likely to release its 2008 budget in February.

Top officer says future planning 'is not a prediction' of how war is going

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Army has plans to keep the current level of soldiers in Iraq through 2010, the top Army officer said Wednesday, a later date than Bush administration or Pentagon officials have mentioned thus far.

<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15220816/>

and pitch that plan in the trash.

sorry, had to, it's general not personal, my soapbox is.

Stay the Course(TM) seems to be a dead end, not enough political will to institute a draft.

So the troops will stay - undermanned and under attack for the next 3 years. How many dead GIs and Iraqis there will be by that time is anyones guess. Even with mortality rates at current levels we are talking 5-6000 US dead and at least a million Iraqi fatalities in total.

:cry: F.U.W. :cry: