Missouri Rep. Ike Skelton, the Armed Services Committee's ranking Democrat, took to the House floor today to sound alarms about slow progress in training Iraqi security forces and problems facing the Army as it scrambles for recruits to fight overseas. "We are in a race against time," he said. "We are either going to lose the American people's support for this effort [in Iraq] or break the Army." Skelton praised attempts by Army Lt. Gen. David Petraeus to try to...
