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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (460098)	9/16/2003 9:45:07 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

re: "prove it.." From the transcript of Meet the Press last Sunday... msnbc.com " MR. RUSSERT: The Congressional Budget Office said that: ?That the Army lacks sufficient active-duty forces to maintain its current level of nearly 150,000 troops in Iraq beyond next spring. In a report that underscores the stress being place on the military by the occupation of Iraq, the CBO said the Army?s goals of keeping the same number of troops in Iraq and limiting tours of duty there to a year while maintaining its current presence elsewhere in the world were impossible to sustain without activating more National Guard or Reserve units.? Can we keep 150,000 troops beyond next spring without, in effect, breaking the Army? VICE PRES. CHENEY: Tim, we can do what we have to do to prevail in this conflict. Failure?s not an option. And go back again and think about what?s involved here. This is not just about Iraq or just about the difficulties we might encounter in any one part of the country in terms of restoring security and stability. This is about a continuing operation on the war on terror. And it?s very, very important we get it right. If we?re successful in Iraq, if we can stand up a good representative government in Iraq, that secures the region so that it never again becomes a threat to its neighbors or to the United States, so it?s not pursuing weapons of mass destruction, so that it?s not a safe haven for terrorists, now we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of the base, if you will, the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11. They understand what?s at stake here. That?s one of the reasons they?re putting up as much of a struggle as they have, is because they know if we succeed here, that that?s going to strike a major blow at their capabilities."