If families weren’t being torn apart and people weren’t being killed, this galactic level of incompetence on the part of the Bush administration would be slightly funny. As it stands, however, this is pretty serious. Anne Flaherty of the AP reported this afternoon that,
The Army is considering whether it will have to extend the combat tours of troops in Iraq if President Bush opts to maintain the recent buildup of forces through spring 2008.
Nice. Of course, this would be an extension to the already excessive 15-month deployments the Army is already being forced to endure. Acting Army Secretary Pete Geren told the Senate today that he was continuing, "to look into our options."
If Secretary Geren, with the tacit approval of the President, extends soldiers past 15 months later this year, I expect Army generals to resign en masse in protest. If they do not, they are cowards.
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