Soldiers returning to Iraq after more brief breaks

Story at MSNBC about soldiers returning to Iraq after considerably shorter respites than is sought by military policy. Some brigades are being sent back into the combat zone after being home only 7 months, when there's supposed to be one year's rest after each year deployed.

Why are the soldiers being sent back so quickly? Because there's not enough military personnel to fully accommodate our presence in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. If this administration decides it wants to go to war with Iran, it will get even worse for our men and women in the armed forces.

Just one more indication that our armed forces have become spread too thin through the worst mismanagement of military resources in American history.

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