"Dave Bugg" > wrote in message
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> sf wrote:
>
>> People aren't exactly flooding the military so they can fight in Iraq.
>> That's why some soldiers are doing their second, third or more tour of
>> duty over there.
>>
>> http://www.zogby.com/NEWS/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1075
>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14999341/#storyContinued
>> http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...eadlines-world
>> ( http://tinylink.com/?tOoGSHOdIL )
>
> The repeated tours have little to do with military recruitment, it has to
> do with the current Bush doctrine of commiting limited numbers of troops
> to the Iraqi theater. That's why McCain is so insistent on increasing
> troop levels to Iraq. The fracked up notion of Bush, and the departing
> Rumsfield, that you can use small levels of deployed troops to remove the
> enemy in one area, then leave and move the troops to the next hot spot is
> crap. You have to have the number of troops needed to take AND HOLD
> disputed ground. Trying to win this action "on the lean" is unexcusable.

Starting the war was inexcusable. All the reasons for it have been shown to
be nonsense.