I think you guys are kidding yourself if you think it's not the war.
I mean, even if you disregard being shot at, soldiers in Iraq have to spend 5 months of the year in 100+ degree temperatures with no air conditioning, among a population that is largely hostile.
That's a very hard sell, regardless of how the economy is.
Why are you here? You have been disrupting every thread I have been on tonight and it is really starting to annoy me.
Welcome to FR: 5-21-05
There's an awful lot of denial on this thread. There IS a problem, and ignoring it does no one any good. You can bet the leadership is aware and working on it. Whether it's a problem that IS solvable is the question. Nobody in the modern era has ever tried to fight a war using an all volunteer military.