Army chief says troops strained, calls pace 'unsustainable'

Gov Exec.com ^ | Dec 5, 2007 | National Journal's CongressDailyAM

[LibLieSlayer]

I have NEVER liked casey.

LLS

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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MEL’s -PASSION- sparked by -WE WERE SOLDIERS-

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[Wonder Warthog]

"No one here considers it hollow."

Well, "here" as in Free Republic. I'm sure a lot of folks on "Daily Kos" and "DU" consider it worse than hollow.

But then, they're treasonous scum.

[maine-iac7]

Memo to Gen. George Casey Stop whining

Your profile says:

"I am a southern California conservative.

Born and raised an Army brat, I did my tour of duty (1975-1980)"

Hmmm - seems to be a measurable difference between a 'southern California conservative" and northern Maine conservative...

Thank you for your service, but you seem to still be a 'brat' ;o)

[maine-iac7]

Our son, USMC, is currently in Ramadi. He says the Marines there want to get into Afghanistan because things are slow in Iraq.

Bless your son and the head of the Marines who want to redeploy some Marines to Afghanistan.

My grandson, 173rd Paratrooper, (son of a former Marine,) is in the deadliest area of Afghanistan, "Taliban Central" in the Korengal = over 500 firefights first 6 months, KIA/wounded rate 1 in 4! - they are in NEED of more boots on the ground...

It seems to be Casey who's balking on it - Territorial imperatives?

Time - PAST time = for the traitors in DC to fund our troops and time for Casey to put his ego in his back pocket.

Go Marines...

[trooprally]

Thank You and GO PARATROOPERS!!!

I hope your grandson knows and sees that he has supporters back home.

[Mr] T

[Steel Wolf]

The military needs (a) more funding, and (b) to better spend what it gets. Warfighting is expensive, especially the way we do it. For the level of performance we demand out of the military, we need to get realistic about what kind of price tag that carries per soldier and per theater, in terms of it being 2007, not 1967 or 1947. We've been kidding ourselves ever since 09/12/2001 about what this war on "terror" is really going to cost us.

Taking an axe to wasteful military spending would be great, but there's a huge amount of bureaucratic entrenchment that will fight to the absolute bitter end than let itself be reformed. There's a lot the system could do on the inside to rehabilitate itself, but pork, inertia, and territorialism are very hard to overcome.

Either way, it's the guy on the combat patrol who suffers if he can't get spare parts or adequate training. That should be our concern.

[edcoil]

During my tour in the 70’s I never recall any of my superior officers complaining and we, were treated like crap in the late 70’s for even being in the military.

[Scotsman will be Free]

Don’t know what branch you were in Joe, but the army was messed up in the early to mid 70s. In Korea we had race riots, black NCOs assaulting white officers, etc. It was ridiculous.

[rightinthemiddle]

Asked about the ongoing dispute between President Bush and the Democratic leaders in Congress over providing $196.4 billion in additional supplemental war funding, Casey stated the obvious that “not having predictable, timely funding makes it harder for me to do my job.” And, he added, “What’s going on now sends a terrible signal to my soldiers and their families.”

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Why isn’t this the topic of all the articles about this briefing? Hmmmm.....

[PurpleMan]

“...will need a steady commitment of increased funding...”

IMHO, Sorry to say that this sounds more like the Democrats (especially when talking about education) than it does about fixing the issues.

[Son House]

fight between Congress and the White House over the supplemental funding for Iraq and Afghanistan makes his job more difficult and sends “a terrible signal” to the troops fighting the war.

Democrats are not loyal to the Troops fighting the war.
Democrats are not loyal to the Troops fighting the war.
Democrats are not loyal to the Troops fighting the war.
Democrats are not loyal to the Troops fighting the war.
Democrats are not loyal to the Troops fighting the war.
Democrats are not loyal to the Troops fighting the war.
Democrats are not loyal to the Troops fighting the war.
Democrats are not loyal to the Troops fighting the war.
Democrats are not loyal to the Troops fighting the war.
Democrats are not loyal to the Troops fighting the war.

[CharlesWayneCT]

See, THAT’s a speech I can agree with. The article twisted it.

I agree with the poster who said to beware ANY article that employs a series of one-word quotes.

It means that the person speaking took great pains NOT to put the word being quoted anywhere near WORDS that would express what the article is saying.

Also beware of any article that uses multiple “...” marks, especially within a single quote. Generally people have a reason for using all of their words, and removing them changes the meaning.

[RDTF]

here is the actual author of the article:

Otto Kreisher

[StarCMC]

I can’t help but wonder about how they would view the stresses on the families during WWII? Some of those wives at home got a piece of mail once a month. We’re so spoiled.

Not only that, but I’d wager that the stress is compounded exponentially by the baloney that gets played out in the enemedia and by the Congress every day. Ugh!

[StarCMC]

EXACTLY! Media bias is ugly, isn’t it?

[StarCMC]

He's certainly been reporting in the defense arena for a long time.

[af_vet_rr]

nice to know that my service to this country in the ‘70’s is considered hollow.....

If you served in the '70s as I did, you'd know exactly what the General was talking about. Reagan was a breathe of fresh air when he came in and we started ramping up again. It was a damn good thing the Soviets never tried anything while Carter was in office.

[af_vet_rr]

I can’t help but wonder about how they would view the stresses on the families during WWII? Some of those wives at home got a piece of mail once a month. We’re so spoiled.

Right after my daughter started flying into and out of Iraq (and Afghanistan as well), she sent me an email with a picture of part of her aircraft and said "See the bullet holes? Somebody took some potshots at us this morning. Don't tell mom."

I have friends who have children serving over there, and they'll be chatting with them (including video chatting) and they'll hear something and their kid will say "something happened, I've gotta run, see ya" as they are picking up a rifle.

The whole thing is very surreal at times (we should have had a clue when the White House allowed reporters to be "embedded" on a large scale during the invasion in 2003).

[joe fonebone]

like i said in another post, carter gutted the military...having to strip aircraft for spare parts was totally asinine...and no fuel to fly ‘em with.....or tools to fix ‘em with....yeah, i remember those days...