Saturday, January 08, 2005

More on Reservists in a crunch

"The official declined to be named because of the political sensitivity of the troop issue and the lack of decisions. But he said that the Army probably will ask Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld in the next several months to change the policy on mobilization of reservists. 'It's coming,' he told a small group of Pentagon reporters. 'I think we're going to have this discussion this spring.'"

Let me repeat here: "significant troop levels may be required in Iraq for four or five more years." Also "Plans being drawn now for 2006..." makes it concrete. They're actually planning on us being there for this year and the next. I can't figure it out, does this administration want to leave or not?

1 comment:

Alexander Wolfe said...

You know, these families have been complaining since late 2003 about their soldiers still being over there, after being told they'd be there for only a few months. How long can we keep rotating the same troops in and out? It took a draft, but at least the guys in Vietnam were done after a year.