Pace expected to tell the President to reduce troop numbers

For over three years democrats and military officials have called Iraq a lost cause, and said that the occupation of Iraq is doing more harm than good. When people close to President Bush echoed similar, grim, feelings on the Iraq War, the President simply dismissed them from their service, but it now looks like there is someone who the President might not be able to overlook:

"The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is expected to advise President Bush to reduce the U.S. force in Iraq next year by almost half, potentially creating a rift with top White House officials and other military commanders over the course of the war. Marine Gen. Peter Pace is likely to convey concerns by the Joint Chiefs that keeping well in excess of 100,000 troops in Iraq through 2008 will severely strain the military."- Los Angeles Times

If this is true it could mean even bigger trouble for the president. While it may be easy to overlook the opinions of war veterans and low level generals, Peter Pace is a respected and honorable man, who has supported the president in the past. We have many enemies in the world that we may have to deal with in the future; Iraq is not one of them. The last thing we need to do is strain the military, let alone have more Americans killed because of a sectarian civil war. I just hope that the president and republicans begin to realize the truth about Iraq. The longer we stay, the worse, for us, it is going to get.