The troops are coming home!

Taken From The Columbus Dispatch (Tue, Aug 17):

Major troop shifts planned
Realignment would bring home as many as 70,000 U.S. forces...

CINCINNATI — It’s time to bring the troops home, President Bush said yesterday. Speaking at the Veterans of Foreign Wars’ national convention, Bush unveiled his plan to return up to 70,000 military personnel — none from Iraq or Afghanistan (NICE MOVE, GEORGIE!) — to the United States.

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Retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark, a rival of Massachusetts Sen. Kerry in the Democratic primaries and former NATO Supreme Allied commander, blasted Bush’s plan as a unilateral political move that will "significantly undermine U.S. national security."

Having U.S. troops leave Europe will send the wrong signal to terrorists and U.S. allies in NATO, and it will harm the ability to deploy forces quickly to hot spots that are more accessible from Europe, Clark said.
"This is not going to make America strong," he said. "It’s going to make us weaker."
Clark said he thinks most veterans this year will cast their vote for president based on the situation in Iraq. Bush has gotten the United States into "a mess," he said.

Outside the convention, Paul Davis, a former Marine from Clermont County who spent three months in the hospital after being wounded in Vietnam, carried a sign with a copy of his discharge papers — challenging Bush to produce his.

"I don’t want George Bush sending my grandchildren to a war that we shouldn’t have been in in the first place," Davis said. "Kerry’s been to war and knows what it means. . . . George hid out during the war."

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