Richard Tafoya
Feb 6th, 2007, 11:52 PM
Can anyone think of any Iraq war boosters that need help finding an application?
http://atrios.blogspot.com/2007_02_04_atrios_archive.html#117082090950081598
Well, I think the grand total of recruits from Operation Yellow Elephant has been 0. Oh well. None of them will join the military, but fortunately there are other opportunities for them to "Win" The Most Important War Evah. The State Department needs civilian employees to go to Iraq. (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/07/washington/07military.html)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 — Senior military officers, including members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have told President Bush and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates that the new Iraq strategy could fail unless more civilian agencies step forward quickly to carry out plans for reconstruction and political development.
The complaints reflect fresh tensions between the Pentagon and the State Department over personnel demands that have fallen most heavily on the military. But they also draw on a deeper reservoir of concerns among officers who have warned that a military buildup alone cannot solve Iraq’s problems, and who now fear that the military will bear a disproportionate burden if Mr. Bush’s strategy falls short.
Among particular complaints, the officers cited a request from the office of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that military personnel temporarily fill more than one-third of 350 new State Department jobs in Iraq that are to be created under the new strategy.
No boot camp, and I imagine you have a pretty good chance of spending much of your time in the Green Zone.
http://atrios.blogspot.com/2007_02_04_atrios_archive.html#117082090950081598
Well, I think the grand total of recruits from Operation Yellow Elephant has been 0. Oh well. None of them will join the military, but fortunately there are other opportunities for them to "Win" The Most Important War Evah. The State Department needs civilian employees to go to Iraq. (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/07/washington/07military.html)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 — Senior military officers, including members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have told President Bush and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates that the new Iraq strategy could fail unless more civilian agencies step forward quickly to carry out plans for reconstruction and political development.
The complaints reflect fresh tensions between the Pentagon and the State Department over personnel demands that have fallen most heavily on the military. But they also draw on a deeper reservoir of concerns among officers who have warned that a military buildup alone cannot solve Iraq’s problems, and who now fear that the military will bear a disproportionate burden if Mr. Bush’s strategy falls short.
Among particular complaints, the officers cited a request from the office of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that military personnel temporarily fill more than one-third of 350 new State Department jobs in Iraq that are to be created under the new strategy.
No boot camp, and I imagine you have a pretty good chance of spending much of your time in the Green Zone.