oh stephen!

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not only are king george and his court

sending our men and women into imminent danger, the rest of the court (jesters) aren't allowing them to get a MUCH NEEDED break now and again.

king george threatens vetos for this and that. why isn't king george veto-ing this? why isn't he INSISTING our men and women get breaks?

why? i'll tell you. because HE and EVERY OTHER ONE OF THOSE ASS WIPES DON'T GIVE A SHITE that's why.

i do. i care and i want our men and women home safe. their job is to defend america. iraq NEVER attacked america nor did it have plans to do so. we don't belong there.

at the VERY LEAST let our men and women rest now and again. get them OUT of harm's way for a bit

Iraq commanders say no to breaks in combat

By Gregg Zoroya - USA Today

WASHINGTON — U.S. commanders in Iraq are rejecting a recommendation by Army mental health experts that troops receive a one-month break for every three months in a combat zone, despite unprecedented levels of continuous fighting and worsening risks of mental health problems.
Instead, commanders are trying to give troops two to three days inside heavily fortified bases after about eight days in the field, said Brig. Gen. Joseph Anderson, chief aide to the ground forces commander in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno.
“We would never get the job done of securing [of Baghdad] if we went out for three months and came back” for one, Anderson said.
U.S. forces in Iraq spend more time in continuous combat without a break than those who fought in Vietnam and World War II, according to Army psychologists who studied troops in Iraq.
U.S. commanders can’t match the World War II policy, Odierno said in a news conference late last month. “Even in World War II and other times ... we would pull forces off the line and bring them back on. Here we don’t do that,” Odierno said. “They [U.S. troops] are out there consistently every single day. So you have to be mentally and physically tough.”.....

so we have to wait one more whole year

until april of 2008 to see results? no. that's insane. absolutely insane. how many (MORE) of our men and women will die between today, may 9, 2007 and april 1, 2008? ONE is too many. that is not even counting the number of iraqi lives lost and the number displaced, made into refugees.

no no no. this has to stop and it has to stop NOW. get our TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ

Commanders in Iraq See 'Surge' Into '08
Pentagon to Deploy 35,000 Replacement Troops


By Ann Scott Tyson Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, May 9, 2007; Page A01
The Pentagon announced yesterday that 35,000 soldiers in 10 Army combat brigades will begin deploying to Iraq in August as replacements, making it possible to sustain the increase of U.S. troops there until at least the end of this year.
U.S. commanders in Iraq are increasingly convinced that heightened troop levels, announced by President Bush in January, will need to last into the spring of 2008. The military has said it would assess in September how well its counterinsurgency strategy, intended to pacify Baghdad and other parts of Iraq, is working.
"The surge needs to go through the beginning of next year for sure," said Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, the day-to-day commander for U.S. military operations in Iraq............