Senate Votes to Add 20, 000 Troops to Army

[cal04]

Defying the Bush administration, the Senate voted overwhelmingly Thursday to add 20,000 troops to an Army stretched thin by the war in Iraq and other commitments around the world.

The 93-4 vote in the Republican-led Senate -- following a similar action by the House -- reflected the anxieties lawmakers have been hearing from families of service personnel whose tours in Iraq keep getting extended and whose return to civilian life is repeatedly postponed.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said the lack of troops at the end of major combat in Iraq cost the military an opportunity to stop the violence that continues today.

``We didn't have enough people on the ground, and now we are paying a very, very heavy price for that incredible mistake on the part of the civilian leadership in the Pentagon of the United States of America,'' he said.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Army-Troops.html

[theivoryqueen]

1. where are they going to get these troops from?

who is enlisting these days?

[mopaul]

3. i wonder

they can't have my son

[nostamj]

4. in an earlier post...

the ENTIRE Vermont NG for starters...

<cue the Dean Scream>>

[sangha]

2. Let the revolution begin!!

You know the Chimp in Chief is in deep doo-doo when the Repukes rebel against him on military policy.

[FlemingsGhost]

5. 20,000 more targets.

"Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort, when you've forgotten your aim."

-- George Santanaya

[luaneryder]

6. Didn't Army CoS Gen Schoomaker

confidently acclaimed that the Army didn't need any more troops? I know I read that somewhere today and now I can't find it.