Discuss “End the Iraq war with proper funding and support”

An article in the September 22 New York Times pointed out a concrete example of the tremendous personnel strains in the armed forces: National guardsmen who traditionally spend five years at home between foreign deployments are now getting an average of only three years before redeployment.

Personnel problems within the armed forces indicate that the military is overextended. This presents President Bush with a predicament. It has become more difficult for the military to achieve victory in either Afghanistan or Iraq, and if the military remains undermanned and underequipped, the end of the war will grow harder still to reach.

The lack of enlistment is also a difficult political problem for Bush’s opponents. According to a poll released...