In a piece that should outrage supporters of U.S. national security secrets (and also AP editors who wish there writers weren’t publishing DNC talking points as “news” stories) the AP’s Lolita C. Baldor took it upon herself to tell the world that the U.S. military cannot sustain it’s current numbers in Iraq for much longer.

The Army’s 38 available combat units are deployed, just returning home or already tapped to go to Iraq, Afghanistan or elsewhere, leaving no fresh troops to replace five extra brigades that President Bush sent to Baghdad this year, according to interviews and military documents reviewed by The Associated Press.

So the AP has time to fish around for stories to undermine the war and cherry pick from interviews and documents but can’t be bothered with waiting for Petraues’s report or reporting on actual progress being made in Iraq.

For a war-fatigued nation and a Congress bent on bringing troops home, none of those is desirable.

A war-fatigued nation?¬† Outside of the soldiers and their families this country has done quite little in historical context though don’t let Miss Baldor know this because it doesn’t fit the “get out of Iraq” narrative of the piece.

The piece goes on to the numbers of troops and dates of when the U.S. would pretty much have to pull out of countries.¬† This kind of information has absolutely no business being public knowledge and it’s utterly irresponsible of people like Miss Baldor at the AP to take it upon themselves to give this information to the world including al Qaeda and the Iranians.