Chuck Hagel warns: Troops are ‘close to the breaking point’

Politico ^ | 23 Jul 13 | PHILIP EWING

[UCANSEE2]

There was a time when the military wasn’t spread all over the globe on one deployment after another.

Well.... someone's got to protect the ASSETS and INVESTMENTS of the RULING OLIGARCHY.

It's so 'nice' of us 'capitalists' to protect the 'wealth' of the 'socialists'.

[headstamp 2]

Don’t confuse the issue with facts. Congress is busy getting ready to spend millions to arm Al-Qaida in Syria.

[EEGator]

I would be more angry/depressed about leaving my family and seeing friends die for ungrateful savages. Let the Islamic filth kill each other.

[Gay State Conservative]

Sign up more perverts.When they're not in the sick bay with their latest flareup of AIDS they can be in Afghanistan telling the jihadis just how evil infidels really are.

[DoughtyOne]

Those are safe mentions in my opinion.

[Jack Hammer]

My point exactly, even if the wording is slightly different.

[Jack Hammer]

Yes, THAT dickhead.

[Jack Hammer]

I refer you to several earlier responses to my point.

[subterfuge]

Its all about the coming Debt Ceiling fight. All owebama’s minions are posturing for the cameras.

[subterfuge]

Bring all the troops home now.

[DoughtyOne]

Probably so.

[greene66]

As long as the military is funding Gay Pride events, housing for perverted faggot-couples, and indoctrination-style diversity training, I have no interest in funding them a single penny more.

Save money? Bring the troops home from those Muslim hellholes, and let the Islamic bastards go back to killing each other.

[MasterGunner01]

The incompetent SecDef Chuck Hagel isn't part of the solution, Chuckie is part of the problem.

[ANGGAPO]

There is more than a little bit of truth in that part about fighting a war, fighting to win. To do that you have to make the enemy wish he had never been born. This PC stuff can get you elected, but there is no such thing as a PC war.
If we had taken a few lessons from WWII our guys would be home and the bad guys would be putting their country back together.

[ThomasMore]

The troops aren’t broken...they are demoralized by YOU and the worst effin POS POTUS in US history.

[silverleaf]

Im’a wonder if mass murderer Major Hassan the Ft Hood jihadist is getting furloughed?

[ANGGAPO]

Desert Storm started it, and it’s been going on ever since. Our country’s leaders have forgotten the purpose behind having a big stick. Carry a big stick so you WON’T have to use it. Democrat administrations in particular seem to think the military is just another tool in the toolbox, so why not use it, eh? Well, they’re using it up, wearing it out, and NOT paying to maintain it.

That is so true that it hurts. Let the rest of the world fight it's own battles, just keep away from the USA.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Can we get our troops to do here what the Army did in Egypt ? Pretty please ?

[okie01]

Carry a big stick so you WON’T have to use it. Democrat administrations in particular seem to think the military is just another tool in the toolbox, so why not use it, eh?

Nancy Pelosi herself has said exactly that.

"We have the best military in the world. What's the point of having it if you don't use it?"

[farsny]

the idiots who run this country. now Kerry is off to shove “peace” down Israel’s throat.