Total political BS. Along with the recent tour extension came a minimum time home before the next deployment. It’s already policy.
I always find it amusing when a bunch of drunken, dope-smoking hippy types try to school our generals on how to run strategic deployments. When will these idiot politicians learn that warcraft is best left to the war-fighters?
Why can't these moron Democrats add?
March 2003 to now -- the campaign is in the fourth year.
Misleading poll question, as no one would say they NEVER want the troops home....
With 24/7 MSM coverage of negative stories about the war, mis-representations of the progress, mis-representations of the War's approval by Congress, "Bush was selected-Not Elected" rhetoric, etc., is it any wonder why after 5 years of hearing this B.S. Americans don't understand the Mission?
Woops ... a little unintended candor?: “The vote was ... designed [intended] to complicate the Pentagon’s ability to rotate sufficient troops into the war zone.”
So it wasn’t for the soldiers and their families?
Face it, you could care less about the troops or their families — this is about trying to engineer an American defeat and embarrass the President to your political benefit.
Home time for the troops isn’t necessarily a bad idea, but congress has NO BUSINESS sticking its nose into this kind of micromanagement. It’s for the President and the military to make these decisions, based on their best judgement.
The Pentagon has a fixed number of personnel to fill billets in Iraq. If Congress mandates that the duration between deployments has to be longer, the only thing the Pentagon can do is to lengthen the tour lengths.
If they did this during WWII, we’d all be speaking either German or Japanese. Some of our guys and women were overseas for four years or more. This is war folks. Remember, for the first three years of WWII, we were loosing. It took time to understand what we were up against. It’s no different in Iraq. We are just now understanding what is going on, what went wrong and what is working. Things will start changing pretty fast now.
This might leave relatively inexperienced troops to deal with hazarardous situations (IEDs, etc).
espo the ass puppet of the dnc
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I don’t take seriously anything liberals say anymore. They all disgust me.
Anybody know what standard minimum home time is?
LOLOL!!!! Some of us didn't Mr. Gates. Some of us said, and knew, from the get go there would be problems. Some of us weren't listened to. Others of us were too interested in purple fingers.