Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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"Et tu Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker". He sticks it right in the back as Rummy is walking out the door.

Officials who took part in the session or who were briefed on it would not give specific figures that were being discussed for growth goals. But their descriptions revealed a broad conclusion that has received increasing support in Washington: that regardless of the exact shape of President Bush’s new strategy on Iraq, the Army and Marine Corps are stretched thin by their commitments around the globe, in particular in Iraq.

That conclusion is being punctuated by the departure of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, who officially leaves his post on Friday and who was long the champion of the idea that high technology and better intelligence could substitute for a bigger military.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/15/world/middleeast/15military.html