Thursday, January 11, 2007

Taking troops from Afghanistan to fight in Iraq

Ignoring the fact that the real fight with terrorists is in Afghanistan. Fighting two wars badly with an overstretched and misused military using aging equipment will ensure we will lose both.

Daily Kos:

Commanders seek more forces in Afghanistan
Taliban prepare offensive against US, NATO troops

[...] President Bush is expected to announce this week the dispatch of thousands of additional troops to Iraq as a stopgap measure. Such an order, Pentagon officials say, would strain the Army and Marine Corps as they man both wars.

A US Army battalion fighting in a critical area of eastern Afghanistan is due to be withdrawn within weeks to deploy to Iraq.

Army Brigadier General Anthony J. Tata and other US commanders say that will happen as the Taliban is expected to unleash a campaign to cut the vital road between Kabul and Kandahar.

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