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In a commentary on Public Radio's Marketplace on November 23, 2005, former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich (Clinton administration) pointed out that a recent GAO report says lagging recruitments and demands for higher pay and benefits for special forces combat troops are stretching the military budget so thin that we will soon be forced to cut our military presence in Iraq, even though the administration pretends that its critics are wrong. You can hear his comment here:
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2005/11/23/AM200511231.html
I didn't look up the GAO report, but it is public information and shouldn't be difficult to find. Reich says we have suffered as much as a 40% decrease in enlistments in certain segments. That is huge. I hope Salon looks at that GAO report and makes use of the data. Looks like bad management will help this administration unravel, and bad management is something on which George W. Bush has become an expert. Heckuva job, W!
Darwin originally (long before he wrote about origins) planned to study for the ministry. Fortunately for us, he was distracted by science.
From your article: "In the meantime, what's the real national embarrassment? The fact that Pat Robertson has threatened the citizens of Dover with divine retribution, or that so-called limited government conservatives got into bed with the religious right in the first place?"
I have looked all over Salon's site for the cartoon that goes with this statement. Where is it? It should be pretty funny.
