It is not Clinton’s fault that GW Bush did not increase the size of the Armed Forces in 2003. There is no way this could be his fault. He was not in office at this time. I never remember blaming Bill Clinton for any of this. If I did, it never was my intention. We hve about 2,000,000 troops in the Army and the Reserves. About 160,000 are in Iraq and Afghanistan. We could get more troops, if we wanted them but we don’t want to do it. Even if you are right and we could not get the troops even if we wanted to right now, the Democrats and Republicans should be working on enlarging the Armed Forces now. I don’t see a serious effort by either party to propose a draft or to significantly increase the size of the military.

It seems to me that the best course of action would be to withdraw from Iraq and regroup for the next round that our enemies will force upon us whether we like it or not. I just hope and pray we have time to build up the necessary forces before our enemies bring the fight to us.

I think we should have immediately mobilized for war after the attacks of 911 then we could have all the troops we needed by now but this was not done. For this I blame GW Bush primarily, however, both Republicans and Democrats bear much blame. To me this is a non partisian issue. I simply want results. Our country faces an existential threat and I don’t see either party making a serious effort to deal with this. The Democrats should immediately cut funding for Iraq.

This would force the President to bring all of our troops home. If things go as I think they will, this will give us some breathing room. We can build up our forces. We will make our stand on our home land. For this to work, better border security is a must. Also the Democrats should immediately begin impeachment hearings against the President, however, they should not allow the country to become distrated, as we face an existential threat that is every bit as dangerous as the enemies we faced during WWII.

Since this Commander has finally pointed out that we need more troops, this may give the Demorats and Republicans in Congress incentive to get the ball rolling and get these brave men and women all the resources they need.

I agree that GW Bush as well as the Republicans are finished, however, winning the war is more important.

Slight problem. With the exception of the last couple of thousand troops dribbling in for the “surge!!!!!”, every soldier the Army has is either in Iraq, on the way to Iraq, or about to rotate home.

There are no troops to send.

GW should have enlarged the Army starting in 2003. Four more years later I’m sure it’s still all Bill Clinton’s fault the cupboard is bare.

BAGHDAD — The commander of U.S. forces in northern Iraq said Friday that he did not have enough troops to deal with the escalating violence in Iraq’s Diyala province, an unusually frank assertion for a top officer and a sign that American military officials might be starting to offer more candid and blunt assessments of the war.

To Tell the Truth

George Bush is finished.

The GOP is headed towards minority status for perhaps a generation.

All it took were the misjudgements of a delusional, stubborn ideolouge abetted by a cadre of yes men & women.

An informer and police work ferreted out the plot in NJ, not troops in Iraq.

I thought we were fighting them over there to keep them from coming here.

I am ashamed that our leaders cannot explain our strategy or our goals.

That’s why 50 million of us voted for the other guy in 2004.

There were never enough troops nor the wil to do what it took to put enough troops there.

Thus the complete futility of this war since the president never made the correct choices, especially back when he had all the clout in the world to so.

What was his political capital spent on after the 2004 election? Not increasing the size of the Army, not a tax increase on oil, not a call to arms to defend this country.

Nope, his priority was Social Security and tax cuts.

We’re seeing the end result now.

The blunders of this administration have already largely erroded Iraqi confidence in the US. The process started almost immediately with the Admins near-complete neglect of basic security. It continued with the Admins utter failure to make good on the promises of local military commanders regarding reconstruction projects necessary for establishing our credibility with Iraqis (Their position was simple: Reconstruction projects can wait. The most important thing is keeping costs down (or at least hiding them from the public)). It continued further with the many public pronouncements about the “last throes” of the insurgency - statements which were the told the Iraqis that the Administration was more concerned with exploiting the domestic politics surrounding the occupation than running the occupation competently. Then there was Abu Ghraib (a direct consequence of the Admins “TV tough-guy” policy that it’s “better to anally violate 10 innocent suspects than let 1 guilty one avoid the fate”), the problem with the lack of oversight regarding “Private Contractors” (and the casual murder of Iraqi civilians for sport: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/Aegis-PSD.mov)

YEah, they probably won’t trust us again for a very long while. Staying there longer aint gonna change that though