Panel: Guard, Reserve Underfunded, out of Loop

And How are we going to win the war with such shortages? Is this Bush's idea of a surge? Maybe if we found some of that $12 billion that disappeared in Iraq we could use to fund the war. I think its probably more likely that we would find WMDs in Iraq than some of those billions that mysteriously disappeared:

The National Guard and Reserve don’t get enough money or equipment and are left out of important planning for national emergencies, an independent panel concluded Thursday, long after the Iraq war and Hurricane Katrina exposed serious stresses on the services.

The report from the Commission on the National Guard and Reserves compounds earlier criticism of the Bush administration’s response to the devastating hurricane that struck the Gulf Coast in August 2005. The administration also is still struggling to better manage the reserves nearly four years into the Iraq war.