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By catdynamics on May 25, 2007.

Steve was right...

Unclassified memo to forces in Iraq on the News Blog.

Hubris Sonic is covering for Steve G. who is critically ill.

Logistic interruptions for US forces in Iraq? Theater wide? WTF?!

UPDATE: Pat Lang speculates on causes - is it ambushes of convoys or failure to surge enough support units with the added combat troops?

As tempting as the latter explanation is, it doesn't quite make sense - the total number of added combat troops was not that large compared to all units in theater, and this seems to be affecting the bases, not field units who are presumably eating a lot of MREs.
A more likely explanation, in my uninformed opinion, is that the contractors are failing to deliver, either because of short staffing, bad planning or failure to get through.

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The delays in the supplemental funding bill may have something to do with it. Since you have followed this issue so well, I couldn't help noticing the aircraft carriers inside the gulf.

Nah, only if they were playing games. The supplementals were signed later in the year in previous years, the Pentagon is not short of money.
The carriers are curious - two is not enough, not even Dick Cheney could think so... could be a dry run, just in case, or could be fishing for provocation, but I don't think the US can do anything until September if the White House decided to.
Next issue will be the language of the '08 DoD appropriations, whether Congress puts in any explicity constraints on spending, and whether Bush pushes back with a signing statement.