We Repeat: Bush is the Manchurian Candiate Who is Undercutting

America's National Security at Every Turn, And Accomplishing What Osama bin Laden Set Out to Do, Take Away Our Liberties and Undercut Our Ability to Defend Our Nation. "Sapped by nearly six years of war, the Army has nearly exhausted its fighting force and its options if the Bush administration decides to extend the Iraq buildup beyond next spring."
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Army too stretched if Iraq buildup lasts

By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer Sun Aug 19, 5:51 PM ET

WASHINGTON - Sapped by nearly six years of war, the Army has nearly exhausted its fighting force and its options if the Bush administration decides to extend the Iraq buildup beyond next spring.
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The Army's 38 available combat units are deployed, just returning home or already tapped to go to Iraq, Afghanistan or elsewhere, leaving no fresh troops to replace five extra brigades that President Bush sent to Baghdad this year, according to interviews and military documents reviewed by The Associated Press.

That presents the Pentagon with several painful choices if the U.S. wants to maintain higher troop levels beyond the spring of 2008:

_Using National Guard units on an accelerated schedule.