Sometimes Rumsfeld's Incompetence Just Looks Like Plain Ol' Cruelty.

[Kurovski]

Soldiers fresh from Iraq ordered back

By LOLITA C. BALDOR

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON - About 300 Alaska-based soldiers sent home from Iraq just before their unit's deployment was extended last month must go back, the Army said Monday, setting up a wrenching departure for troops and families who thought their service there was finished.

The soldiers - all from the 172nd Stryker Brigade - are among the 380 who had gotten home to Fort Wainwright when Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ordered the unit to serve four more months. The remaining 80 will not have to return to Iraq.

...The unit is being stationed in Baghdad, one of the most violent parts of the country.

http://www.theolympian.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060815/NEWS/608150363

Take a moment to imagine how you would feel if this was happening to your daughter, husband, father, friend. Imagine you were one of the soldiers. I know a soldier does as directed, but wouldn't it be nice if those leading them were not such careless fools?

What monumental incompetents we have running this nation.

[fooj]

1. It is cruelty.

It's all by design.

[FUGW]

6. Cruelty is their diplomacy. Authoritarians are cowards that see

short term self preservation as their only motivation. The less perceived personnel sacrifice to them to achieve this the more they will blindly back the people that they believe will give it to them. Authoritarian followers know that they would be the 1st ones to give up to a Shock and Awe bombing campaign and kiss ass to the invading army to save their own ass. So they think everyone would do the same thing, thats why GW didn't plan for an insurgency. He would have never risked his ass for his country so why would he think anyone else would risk their ass for theirs.

[leftofthedial]

2. and vice versa

[The Blue Flower]

3. I'd be hiking to Canada

n/t

[Lowell]

4. The expense of sending them back

must be astronomical. I can't understand their reasoning behind this. If this isn't a backdoor draft I don't know what is.

[Kurovski]

5. You are correct...look at this part in the article:

"Army officials have sent a team of personnel and pay experts to Alaska to help sort out all of the soldiers' vacations, school enrollments and other plans torn apart by the decision to return them to Iraq."

[lies and propaganda]

7. they dont give ONE FUCK about the soldiers

they are expendable and just part of the process.