Comments on: In Rush To Iraq, Army Units Skip Training

Two Combat Brigades Being Deployed To Baghdad Without Usual Desert Training

[musty2u]

There was a time when every soldier finishing basic training was pretty adequately trained. A lot of major engagements were handled with troops thus trained. What is the matter with the soldiers these days? Are they forgetting what they learned? Did they not think it was real?

[gkc99]

US_infidel--guess there are none so blind as those who will not see, like yourself. The bottom line is a thinly stretched military that is the result of 6 years of big talk and no action by Bushit neocons. Can't blame it on Pelosi, Kennedy, or Hil, no matter how much you squawk. Nope, your boy Bush is a major f***up!

[randalds]

" 'Adequate' is probably a good description of what that training is. It's not the premier kind of situation that commanders would prefer, but it is adequate."

Military analyst Daniel Goure

Will the funerals be "adequate" when these troops die because of poor training? Several reports have already shown that the rehabilitation of our wounded troops is pathetic, so at least, at the very very least, will the funerals be "adequate"? Can we at least expect that?

[cathaleen]

Yeah! that great, who's the genius that decided that? We'll be looking at many more deaths and casualities. I sure hope they can live with that.

[us_infidel]

Another CBS/AP hit piece. Desert training is WAY different from the close in combat of Iraqi city fighting.

Are you folks blindfolded from the inside of your heads???

[bildooreilly]

%u201CMilitary men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy.%u201D
~ Henry Kissinger

[gkc99]

Curious how the "pro-military" Repubbies, who have controlled the US government since 2000, have done nothing to beef up the Army. Rather, their pathetic efforts have led to this understaffed, underarmed fiasco in Iraq. It's not just the lack of body and Humvee armor--it's an overall shortage of personnel. The Repubbie Chickenhawks strut around like little roosters, but when it comes to actually supporting the soldiers, they don't do Bushit.

[bluestardad]

President Bush is holding Hostage all the America Troops in the Iraq War Theater by indicating that if Congress Cuts funding for the His Iraq War Plan he will leave the troops over there anyway without supplies and equipment they need, instead of bringing them home. Is that anything other than kidnapping or hostage taking? Supporting the Troops does not mean Supporting the War in Iraq or the Bush Idea of the War in Iraq! There is a difference! It is bad enough that the Bush Administration sent the troops to Iraq on false pretences, ill equipped and ill prepared with no end game plan. The Rovian spin of a Congressional Vote against the Bush Iraq war scenario is a vote against the Troops just validates the Bush Administration resolve to Hold the Military Troops Hostage to his Iraq war plan regardless of the will of America and its elected representatives.

Bush is playing all of us against each other! In one hand he is touting the Red White and Blue war on Terror against everyone who attacked us on 911 and on the other hand he is funding Al Qaeda to destabilize other governments in the Middle East! Here is the stream read it yourself!

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/070305fa_fact_hersh

Just copy up to the Hersh on the news stream this web site is adding a n on the end of the paste!

SO DO SOMETHING EXCEPT SIT ON THE COMPUTER AN COMPLAIN! Write Congress Now! http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/

[annd2302]

I flat cannot believe I just read this article. Was this published in the United States? Looks real communist to me. Third world ***. Surely I%u2019m dreaming. Wake me up, tell me it was a joke! ! !

S. Turner
Master Sergeant (Retired)

[grazinggoat]

What difference deos it make to have a trained or an untrained GI when they are blown-up by a suicide bomber?
This is an indication to the priority of Walking-Liar and co, is not to establish order and security in Iraq, but rathar to gain the government contracts to the Haliburton group and subsidiaries... GI's flesh on the ground... and inflaming the hatred toward insurgents... translating into more budgets justified to hike Iraqi security.

Message to Walking-Liar. Get the hekk us outathere ... alive! Now.

[bm6005]

Duuhhhhh!!!!!!! Any wonder why?

[karlimhof]

sent without desert training? are we completely out of gas ?