- First Donald Rumsfeld successfully pushed his policy of reducing the military’s dependence on personnel in favor of high tech training and high tech equipment and saw to it that Iraq was invaded with the small military force incapable of policing the 26 million people in Iraq.
- Then the President called in Reserve Units
- Then the President authorized a “stop loss” policy preventing indespensible troops due to leave Iraq from leaving.
- Now the President has called up “inactive” Marines in the Reserves to serve in Iraq. Their call-ups will last from a year to 18 months.
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