General Casey: Obama's Surge Won't Require Longer Tours, Shorter Leaves

By GottaLaff

No stop loss, no longer tours? Really?

Gen. George W. Casey, the U.S. army's chief of staff, said Wednesday that the military would be able to implement President Obama's surge in Afghanistan without either extending the current length of tours in Iraq or Afghanistan or giving soldiers less time at home with their families between deployments.

He also said that the president's decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan for at least the next 18 months would not require the army to reinstitute an unpopular program known as "stop loss," which prevented soldiers from leaving the army as previously scheduled.

Our troops are so pooped, frayed, suicidal, PTSD'd, drugged, alcoholic'd, stretched to the limit. They need a break.

Hey, I know! Let's stop fighting!

There I go being naive again.