Date Posted:09:05:35 09/14/06 Thu Author: ???? Subject: Westmoreland said the same thing about Vietnam In reply to:
Rebel
's message, "General says he lacks troops" on 05:19:02 09/14/06 Thu
He told that to LBJ and damned if time and time again he didn't get 100,000 or 200,000 more men. The difference is, we had the troops to send. He didn't ask for the national guard to be ACTIVATED-------- We need a draft and a much bigger regular army, base closings to stop and cheaper booze and food served at officers clubs
>BAGHDAD, Iraq - The commanding general of coalition
>forces in Iraq's Anbar province said Tuesday that he
>had enough troops for his mission - training and
>recruiting Iraqi forces - but not enough to defeat the
>insurgency.
>
>
>Marine Maj. Gen. Richard Zilmer spoke in response to a
>report from a senior Marine intelligence officer, Col.
>Peter Devlin, that said the political and security
>situation in Anbar had deteriorated so much that only
>more aid and another division of troops - about 10,000
>to 15,000 - could turn things around. The Washington
>Post on Monday was the first to report on Devlin's
>confidential report, which was prepared in August.
>
>
>The intelligence report and Zilmer's comments were
>some of the first times that the military has said
>publicly that more troops would be needed to defeat
>the insurgency in Anbar, the volatile province in
>western Iraq that's the heart of the Sunni Muslim-led
>insurgency.
>
>
>The Bush administration has said that American
>commanders in Iraq have never asked for more troops
>and would get them if they did. Privately, however,
>many U.S. officers say their troops are stretched too
>thin, not only in Anbar but also in Baghdad and
>elsewhere.
"Privately, however, many U.S. officers say their troops are stretched too thin..." -- Pud, 09:13:33 09/14/06 Thu