Reply #7: They are in so far over their capacity [View All]

[teryang]

...that radical manpower levies will be required to avoid a complete collapse of the Iraq mission. It won't be a tactical failure, it will be a logistical failure in basic resources, humans, if something huge, isn't done.

Their only trying to get by November. When an Army general admits that he is stretched for resources, you know it's bad. It is virtually an unwritten rule that you can't say that in the Army. He's trying to let the truth be known without getting fired.

Threre is an unfair competetion for budget dollars going on between the contractors who have an unfair advantage in Congress and the White House, and the ground forces, who have to make do with whatever allocation they can get. Also, tapping further in manpower resources will increase wage pressures. The new low wage slave job market might tighten up. In fact there are signs that it is already is. Local and state governments are starting to pay significantly highly wages for semi-skilled and skilled employees even here in Florida.