CNN: Bush Is ‘Very Seriously’ Considering Sending More Troops To Iraq

[240 is Back]

I agree with you that its unrealistic. To me George H. Bush looks better every day with his reasoning for not marching into Bagdad in 1991.

I'd like to buy you a beer, my friend.

[Jeff Miller]

it's unrealistic - no way we ever get that many more to enlist.

So maybe a draft is the answer.  We have only been a "voulnteer" army for the past 30 years or so, so its not really a foreign concept.

What would be the pros/cons of a draft?  Discuss.

[Hugo Chavez]

So maybe a draft is the answer.  We have only been a "voulnteer" army for the past 30 years or so, so its not really a foreign concept.

What would be the pros/cons of a draft?  Discuss.

An overnight end to the war... 

[muscleforlife]

An overnight end to war?  I don't think so.

More like this country protesting like crazy.  Starting with the college campuses.

A draft is the only way that more troops, it ain't happening.

More equipment and up the training of the Iraqi forces to take over their country.
Sandra

[240 is Back]

An overnight end to war?  I don't think so.

More like this country protesting like crazy.  Starting with the college campuses.

A draft is the only way that more troops, it ain't happening.

More equipment and up the training of the Iraqi forces to take over their country.
Sandra

IMO, people are already to angry with the war, and there are a million people who fought in nam who "will be damned if they let their kids die for the same BS they fought for".  Thanks to the web and today's already thin belief in the war, I don't think it'd work.

[rockyfortune]

Do you have any idea how many soldiers are needed for every frontline soldier who sees combat?

I have no idea but support personnel is part of every division in the us army...you cannot just have infantry companies without the supporting personnel---they may not be seeing frontline combat but that's the way all military's work...YES, I agree there should have been more troops there in the beginning but to say they need to dump every infantry division into iraq and everything would be much better is like fighting vietnam all over again...we had overwhelming superiority in manpower and machinery and we still couldn't finish the job. 

[bmacsys]

I'd like to buy you a beer, my friend.

Sam Adams Lager.

[rockyfortune]

I'm wondering how many American trained Iraqi military personnel are turning around and carrying out attacks on American troops...i have no trust in the spineless iraqi people to actually do the right thing and police their own country which is even a better reason for us to leave and let the fuckers kill each other.

[Jeff Miller]

No matter how many Iraqis get trained, there are still a certain number of systems that must be in place to sustain the force.

So.....the debate is really not about how many of them are or will be trained to fight, is it?