Will Rumsfeld Listen Now?
Rumsfeld ignored oommon sense warnings and advice before, during and after the Iraq invasion. So does anyone think he'll listen now? Well General Peter Schoomaker, Army Chief of Staff, is doing his best to make Rumsfeld listen. How? He held back the 2008 budget plan because he said that the service couldn't keep going like this without billions more dollars. No, not millions. Billions. You know, Pentagon levels of funding.
This is the sort of thing that just doesn't happen over there. When a report is due, it's there. Holding it back as a protest is, well, a pretty big thing within the Pentagon. Schoomaker is looking for $25 billion more than Rumsfeld asked for. A 41% increase over the current level.
Aside from funding issues, there is the strain on personnel. The Army's active duty force is 504,000. About 400,000 of them have done at least one tour of combat duty. Over 1/3 of them have been deployed TWICE.
This is the sort of thing that just doesn't happen over there. When a report is due, it's there. Holding it back as a protest is, well, a pretty big thing within the Pentagon. Schoomaker is looking for $25 billion more than Rumsfeld asked for. A 41% increase over the current level.
Aside from funding issues, there is the strain on personnel. The Army's active duty force is 504,000. About 400,000 of them have done at least one tour of combat duty. Over 1/3 of them have been deployed TWICE.
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