Sora
04-29-2004, 05:25 PM
"Military Seeks More Troops in Iraq" reads a recent Wall Street Journal headline. Worried Defense specialists send e-mails to each other predicting that we are "one over-tired Reservist away from a massacre" in Iraq. The US military services are cranking up their advertising programs looking for recruits. The networks are all running stories of disappointed family members getting the news that their loved ones are having their tours extended. All of these are visible signs of what is apparent to everyone: We don't have enough boots on the ground in Iraq and it doesn't look like we are going to receive much additional help from other countries. It's hardly an accident that the Iraqi thugs are attacking coalition partners -- the Italians, the Spanish, the Bulgarians -- in an effort to discourage other countries from sending soldiers.
There is, however, a way that President Bush could turn all this around with one telephone call. All he would have to do is ask President Chen of Taiwan for his Marines. Taiwan has about 35,000 Marines and their deployment to Iraq could be relatively immediate. That's about the equivalent to the strength of one to two heavy American divisions or three divisions of coalition troops
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=3703
There is, however, a way that President Bush could turn all this around with one telephone call. All he would have to do is ask President Chen of Taiwan for his Marines. Taiwan has about 35,000 Marines and their deployment to Iraq could be relatively immediate. That's about the equivalent to the strength of one to two heavy American divisions or three divisions of coalition troops
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=3703