After what this democratic congress has done is it any wonder we even have
a
military left.
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> http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/02/19/military.survey.iraq/
>
> Foreign Policy magazine and the Center for a New American Security on
> Tuesday issued the U.S. Military Index, a survey of 3,400 present and
> former U.S. military officers.
>
> "We asked the officers whether they thought the U.S. military was
> stronger or weaker than it was five years ago," said Michael Boyer,
> who helped write the re****t.
>
> "Sixty percent said the U.S. military is weaker than it was five years
> ago," Boyer told re****ters.
>
> The re****t found that officers "see a military apparatus severely
> strained by the grinding demands of war." More than half of the
> officers responding cited the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the
> "pace of troop deployments" needed for those conflicts, the survey
> said.
> [...]
> The officers believe "that either China or Iran, not the United
> States, is emerging as the strategic victor" in the Iraq war.
>
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