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this is what i call ''bad news''

by jonah jones Nov 22, 2003 1:44AM PST

Army planning for Iraq currently assumes keeping about 100,000 United States troops there through early 2006, a senior Army officer said Friday. The plans reflect the concerns of some Army officials that stabilizing Iraq could be more difficult than originally planned.

The officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, warned that maintaining a force of that size in Iraq beyond then would cause the Army to "really start to feel the pain" from stresses on overtaxed active-duty, Reserve and National Guard troops.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/22/politics/22MILI.html?hp

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NT This not quite the biggest DUH since DW took us to war there.

by T Lee Nov 22, 2003 1:58AM PST

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Re:this is what i call ''bad news''

by Roger NC Nov 22, 2003 1:59AM PST

I suspect even before then.

I have a nasty suspicion that a lot of national guard and reserve members are re-evalutating re-enlisted the next time their turn comes up.

Not because of just Iraq, but because of both Iraq times, and the other frequent mobilizations in the last decade. Reservists (sp?) and National Guard members probably didn't anticipate being called up more than twice in a decade for a year or two at the time when they chose to join.

Not impuning any of them or their motives, I'm just pointing out that expecting to serve in a rare military emergency action, or for brief times in aiding the local civilian governemnt at home for natural disasters, when they joined is much different from a 25% to 50% of the time duty. And that is what is appearing to happen to some.

roger

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stabilizing Iraq could be more difficult than originally planned

by Rosalie Nov 22, 2003 2:05AM PST

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I didn't realize there were any original plans. 100,000 for two years? How do they come up with these figures and deadlines. More so WHY do they come up with them, they are never anywhere near accurate. That's only about 30 or 40 thousand less than are there right now and here I was counting days until June. Someone in SE said, "Don't start counting yet".

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