Sustaining the Surge By Extending Deployments
April 10th, 2007 | by Ken Grandlund |The Dept. of Defense is considering an extension of up to 15,000 in theater troops to help keep President Bush’s “surge” plan on target.
According to a Pentagon official, the new US commander, General Petraeus is having to scramble to find troops to implement the surge plan, which really is no sound plan at all. And with new troops either not being recruited or trained fast enough, one of the only options is to extend, by as much as four months, the tours of troops already fighting in Iraq. That’s no surge folks, it’s simply an over-extension of already fatigued troops. Call it another ploy in the “support the troops” mentality that doesn’t care about the troops at all.
Consider too that since the President announced his surge plan in January that US fatalities have increased to over 80 per month, the deadliest first quarter since the war began. The surge seems to be working for all the casket makers, but that’s about it. Iraq sure isn’t much safer than it was three months ago.
The whole surge ploy is another bait and switch on the American people, especially the troops and their families, pulled by a shifty conman sitting in a very big chair.
[tag]surge, Bush, Iraq, Patreaus, troops, military, tour+extension[/tag]
One Response to “Sustaining the Surge By Extending Deployments”
By Ron on Apr 10, 2007 | Reply
Thing is, the surge was never, ever anything more than an extension of deployments or early deployments.