100,000 Replacement Troops to be sent to Iraq

That's right, basically the plan is to remove EVERYONE currently in Iraq... and replace them with 100,000 troops. Is this such a good idea? How will the new troops handle Iraq? I would compare this to football, where a team pulls all 22 of their starters and trades them for new players... halfway through the season. Obviously, the new players aren't going to know what the hell is going on.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/11/06/sprj.irq.main/index.html

(snip)

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The U.S. Army was preparing Thursday to honor victims of a deadly helicopter crash with a memorial service in Iraq, while Washington was set to announce a plan to rotate 100,000 fresh troops into the region in 2004.

Formal word of the new rotation was expected, according to Pentagon sources, as U.S. Central Command announced the deaths of two additional U.S. soldiers in Iraq.

They just called up National Guard here in Oregon and are sending them for training to be shipped over in March I think. So if they're giving these guys more training in peacekeeping, maybe it'll be an improvement. The thing here is that we'll still need this number of troops in March. I'm not sure that has sunk in yet. I'm not sure most Americans really get that we're at war and there are going to be dead kids every day for some time to come. When the hope that this will end soon dies, Bush is done for sure.

Service to honor Chinook crash victims -
The CNN headline
(Please read the fine print
to determine what this article is all about)

We're getting Doublespeak 24/7 now.

The failure to bring anyone on board
w/ us.

No mention of Spain pulling out.

Turkey was not mentioned once yesterday
on CNN/CNBC/ or CBS.

NBC led w/ abortion. I didn't catch ABC.

Where's the money ($87B?) and how long
will the Reservists jobs be held for them?

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-US-Iraq-Troops.html?ex=1069086626&ei=1&en=c7b8f6b0bd2c9931

That's the point.

This swell new plan includes 30,000 (or is it 40,000?) reservists, people who signed on for what - one weekend a month? - and taking them away from their regular jobs and families for a year if I heard correctly. This was at or near the top of two network evening newscasts that I saw yesterday, along with the "news" that the war on terror will take 5 to 15 years. Hello! Where is the outcry? Why aren't giant pink and purple polka-dotted cows being born all over America?

Is it because they also called it a plan and said troop strength "could be" reduced by May? Why isn't this blatant lie - this obvious alternative to reinstating the draft before the election - being questioned along with the wisdom of tossing a fourth or fifth as many people who couldn't commit to full-time military service as are already trapped in their bottomless death hole?

Are people really this stupid and lackadaisical? Or am I freaking out too soon? Does there have to be some congressional review or something? Like that means it might not happen. Tell me something to make this cow of mine (which is currenty stuck in a north-facing window, going "Moo! Eh? Moo! Moo! Moo!") go away.

making out like this is a real plan that's been in the works for months. So again I ask: Where's the outcry? Am I missing something?