The decider speaks: President Bush said Wednesday he would “not be rushed” into a decision on a strategy change for Iraq, saying that in a round of consultations he heard both some interesting ideas and some “ideas that would lead to defeat.” “And I reject those ideas,” Bush said after meeting with top generals and […]
This is definitely one for the WTF column. The U.S. military’s top commander said Wednesday that he underestimated the extent of the reluctance of the Iraqi people to accept a unified government, and he thought citizens would more quickly embrace the idea of a central government. “I think that I certainly did not understand the […]
IWAKUNI, Japan (AFP) – This decaying US base city will have a rare chance this weekend to hand down a symbolic but potentially influential verdict on the US military presence in Japan. The western port city near Hiroshima on Sunday will hold the first referendum on a controversial bilateral plan announced in October in which […]