JohnnyMack
10/11/2006, 01:00 PM
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,219781,00.html
The Army chief of staff, Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, cautioned that people not read too much into the planning, because it is easier to pull back forces than to get units prepared and deployed at the last minute.
"This is not a prediction that things are going poorly or better," Schoomaker told reporters. "It's just that I have to have enough ammo in the magazine that I can continue to shoot as long as they want us to shoot."
Which is all well and good, but SOME news about troops coming home would have been nice. These Iraqis don't seem to be in too much of a hurry to take care of themselves.
The Army chief of staff, Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, cautioned that people not read too much into the planning, because it is easier to pull back forces than to get units prepared and deployed at the last minute.
"This is not a prediction that things are going poorly or better," Schoomaker told reporters. "It's just that I have to have enough ammo in the magazine that I can continue to shoot as long as they want us to shoot."
Which is all well and good, but SOME news about troops coming home would have been nice. These Iraqis don't seem to be in too much of a hurry to take care of themselves.