tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6762928.post116559833669613427..comments2024-01-03T05:23:36.046-08:00Comments on The Citizens: Iraq Study Group: ReflectionsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6762928.post-1165845038762231432006-12-11T05:50:00.000-08:002006-12-11T05:50:00.000-08:00Yep, Iraq is a mess-o-potamia alright. Best to ju...Yep, Iraq is a mess-o-potamia alright. Best to just cut bait and stop risking US West's brother's life and those of his comrades, to protect the egos of the misguided policy makers in the Bush adminstrations whose arrogance got us into this mess in the first place. <BR/><BR/><A></A><A></A>// posted by<A><B> </B></A>RBRAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6762928.post-1165800086747306922006-12-10T17:21:00.000-08:002006-12-10T17:21:00.000-08:00I agree with RBR, especially since my brother just...I agree with RBR, especially since my brother just got promoted to Platoon Srgt. ( and E-8 job) from Staff Srgt ( an E-6) and yet to recieve training for his previous job of Staff Srgt. For those who don't know what E-6 and E-8 mean, these are the pay grades used by the U.S. Military. Civilians have a GS (government service) rank that runs in a similar fashion. In effect, my brother, who is considering leaving the service in 2008, has jumped 2 pay grades in terms of his position and that means in terms of repsonsibility without having been given training or passing through the normal process of promotion. 1: They don't want to loose him 2: they are so desperate for work horses, they are promoting through the ranks very quickly. And this means that he will most likely do another tour in Iraq. And this time, he will be much more of a target regardless of what he tells my mother.<BR/><BR/>On the radio the other day, they are talking about changing National Guard rotations. National Guard are supposed ot be our reserve force. In effect, we no longer have a reserve force. By law, for every year in, National Guard are supposed to be 2 years out. These guys are being called back to do 2 and three tours and they have to leave their equipment when they come home. So you have a "reseve" force that has no equipment and bascially no staff.<BR/><BR/>The only thing you can do is draft. And you know who will get stuck having to do that . . . Democrats. And you know what that will do do Democrats.<BR/><BR/>The the Iraqi Study Group just said is that you must always take a holistic approach the the Middle East. And it doesn't help when you have the Saudis paying for insurgencies while at the same time helping us by flooding the market with oil and operating as a middle man for us to buy wepaons for the Pakistanis. <BR/><BR/><A></A><A></A>// posted by<A><B> </B></A>USWestAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6762928.post-1165616761418986412006-12-08T14:26:00.000-08:002006-12-08T14:26:00.000-08:00Of course the problem with option 7 is two fold. ...Of course the problem with option 7 is two fold. First, where do we get all these extra troops? Second, from a purely political point of view, increasing the number of troops would be the Iraq equivolent of invading Cambodia. It would bring people out into the streets. <BR/><BR/><A></A><A></A>// posted by<A><B> </B></A>RBRAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com