A Crisis Of Leadership: Coop On The Division In The Executive

By Kleinheider Posted on April 18, 2008 at 6:09 pm

Congressman Jim Cooper breaks down the divide on the War in Iraq within the administration:

Gen. David Petraeus and President Bush support keeping troop levels in Iraq as high as possible — about 140,000 — for the foreseeable future. General Richard Cody and Secretary Robert Gates think the Army is losing morale and is unprepared for other possible conflicts. They have advocated a drawdown to roughly 100,000 troops (although Gates recently admitted we can no longer reach that target by the end of the year). This decision directly affects, for example, how many Tennessee National Guardsmen deploy (again) to Iraq. It also affects whether we remain the strongest nation on earth, or only in Southwest Asia.

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