With the November midterm elections looming ever closer Democrats redouble efforts to secure defeat in Iraq.
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Secretary of Defense William Perry, both members of the Clinton administration, were credited among the authors of the study that congressional Democrats released.
It said that U.S. ground forces are under "enormous strain," adding, "This strain, if not soon relieved, will have highly corrosive and potentially long-term effects on the force."
In the earlier report obtained by The Associated Press, Andrew Krepinevich, a retired Army officer who wrote it under Pentagon contract, concluded that the Army cannot sustain the pace of troop deployments to Iraq long enough to break the back of the insurgency.
A pullout would suit the Democrats very nicely, but to their misfortune reality is pretty evident. Just in case they're missing it, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld provided some clarity.
"The force is not broken," Rumsfeld said, suggesting such an implication was "almost backward."
"The world saw the United States military go halfway around the world in a matter of weeks, throw the Al Qaida and Taliban out of Afghanistan, in a landlocked country thousands and thousands of miles away. They saw what the United States military did in Iraq.
"And the message from that is not that this armed force is broken, but that this armed force is enormously capable," Rumsfeld said.
The futility of the Democrats is manifesting itself in a most bizarre way. It's the strangest thing that Democrats are actually working to achieve an American defeat in the Middle East. They see it as their vehicle back to power. Maybe that's not so strange.
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