WTF-"Army considers longer combat tours again "

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070619/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iraq
The Army is considering whether it will have to extend the combat tours of troops in Iraq if President Bush opts to maintain the recent buildup of forces through spring 2008.
Acting Army Secretary Pete Geren testified Tuesday that the service is reviewing other options, including relying more heavily on Army reservists or Navy and Air Force personnel, so as not to put more pressure on a stretched active-duty force.

He thinks that this is the ticket....bastard...

And there they sit, trembling at the mere mention of a veto.

Despite the millions spent on daily advertising, they cannot fill the quotas. And of course, they don't dare breathe about a draft because they wouldn't want to chance their own little republican spawn to have to sacrifice anything. So we now just keep extending the tours of all those people who signed up to *protect our country*.

I'm amazed at how much BS the troops they supposedly CARE about have to deal with. When is there going to be a holy stink raised about this? :rant:

I'm about to the point where I can't stand by any longer

This government has broken faith with its volunteer military; I don't see any further obligation on their part to remain.

I realized early on in my deployment that what we were doing was wrong years ago and couldn't do anything about it at the time but did I when I got my discharge, you bet.

Bush is willing to destroy the lives of the Americans who volunteered to serve their country. For the millions of Iraqis, who most certainly did NOT volunteer to have their lives and their country destroyed, it is intolerable. I can't understand why anybody gives credibility to anything the neocons come up with.

They are bankrupting and destroying our country, and pounding a weak country into oblivion. How much more agony can those suffering from this monstrous, illegal war endure? I feel locked in a nightmare, seeing horror after horror, and unable to wake up. I've never felt so helpless in my life.

I guess the GIs feel that way too. Bush is wearing the military down to nothing. How is that protecting the country?

elitist fuckwads.

support a draft. I really do. I'm too old and don't have any skin in the game, but enough is efreakingnough.

Hell, before long, they'll be telling the soldiers 18 months is only 3 months longer than 15 months. Nothing to whine about, it's only 90 more days longer in hell than the last time they were over there.

And a year from now, they'll tell them, where's your patriotism, suck it up, 24 months is only 2 years. Nothing to complain about, 2 years isn't even as long as it took to get out of high school.

What the hell, why not make them go over for 3 year tours? Bush will be gone by then and so will most of your buddies, but lets give it the ol' college try this time, what?

By then, you won't want to "come home" anyway what with the plant closed now after the jobs were shipped over to China, and you know your parents don't really want to tell their neighbors that you might not re-up this time because your 3rd tour to Iraq didn't go well.

Excellent point. They are institutionalizing our soldiers to this war. I've met more than a few that actually wished they were back "in country" because they felt out of place and didn't know what to do with their time in the U.S. WTF!

We sure do hang together, don't we? Makes me proud. :puke: