Word: troop
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...Cheney would try repeatedly to cancel it - hard, that is, until you get to know the Osprey. As Defense Secretary under George H.W. Bush, Cheney tried four times to kill the Marine Corps's ungainly tilt-rotor aircraft. Four times he failed. Cheney found the arguments for the combat troop carrier unpersuasive and its problems irredeemable. "Given the risk we face from a military standpoint, given the areas where we think the priorities ought to be, the V-22 is not at the top of the list," he told a Senate committee in 1989. "It came out at the bottom...
...this issue than most politicians; his son is a Marine who has served in Iraq. However, Webb's proposal is not a humanitarian act: It is part of a political strategy. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said that the plan is not a "backdoor" method for reducing the American troop presence in Iraq, but that's exactly what it is. The only way to give soldiers and Marines more time in the U.S. is to reduce the total number of troops in Iraq at any given time. American troops have not being sent to Iraq at such a punishing pace...
...understandable that advocates of troop withdrawal would look for indirect ways to start drawing down the American presence in Iraq, since straightforward proposals to bring troops home have no chance of passing Congress. But disguising policy proposals as sentimental appeals to the well-being of American troops does little to advance a substantive debate over the course of American foreign policy. It is a cynical overcompensation for the accusation that opponents of the war don't "support the troops...
...eventually physical, psychological and logistical facts - not posturing in Washington - will require a substantial reduction in the American troop presence in Iraq. There are simply limits to how long the U.S. military can operate at this pace. The President is claiming that the additional 30,000 troops who arrived in Iraq as part of the surge can now return home because they have accomplished their mission. In truth, they are returning home because it is impossible to keep 160,000 soldiers and Marines in Iraq indefinitely...
...President's attempt to disguise the strain on the military as a "victory" for his troop surge is disingenuous politicking at its worst. But it's symptomatic of a debate in Washington that puts high-flown rhetoric and do-good intentions like "supporting the troops" ahead of a serious discussion of what America still can and should do in Iraq...