Face it – the right hate seeing combat operations come to an end. Their silence on the milestone being reached last night in the 7 year war proves the claims the left has made for years; the right loves them some war. For example, how do you think the champion news site of the right, […]
MSNBC has been covering this all night. Two weeks ahead of schedule, the final combat troops in Iraq are crossing the border into Kuwait. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Of course 50,000 troops will remain indefinitely in a non-combat capacity. Despite that number, this is still a huge […]
This is rather amazing: A new national poll suggests that nearly three-quarters of all Americans support the plan to withdraw most U.S. combat troops from Iraqi cities and towns, even though most believe that the troop movements will lead to an increase in violence in that country. But nowhere near as amazing as this: “This […]
Check out the latest story Drudge is pushing: OH NOES – Obama has failed!!!! You even realize that when you start reading the article: Barack Obama made an impassioned plea to America’s allies to send more troops to Afghanistan, warning that failure to do so would leave Europe vulnerable to more terrorist atrocities. But though […]
The biggest failure with the Iraq War has been the total lack of planning. The people who laid out good plans lost their jobs, and instead the administration has decided to wing the entire thing. That deadly mentality is continuing: The administration lacks an updated and comprehensive Iraq strategy to move beyond the “surge” of […]
What a way to silently increase over all troop presence in Iraq. Send in a 30,000 as part of a “surge” and then when you declare it a success, only pull out 20,000. This leaves you a net gain of 10,000 troops: The United States will probably have more troops in Iraq this summer than […]
TPM Brings us this gem: “A ‘surge’ or ‘targeted increase in U.S. troop strength’ or whatever the politicians want to call dispatching more combat troops to Iraq isn’t the answer. Adding more trainers and helping the Iraqis to help themselves, is. Sending more U.S. combat troops is simply sending more targets.” That is a quote […]
This reminds me of Bush sending his staff to their ethics training last year, following the indictment of Scooter: A top US commander in Iraq has ordered combat troops to be trained to abide by moral and ethical standards on the battlefield. The move is an apparent reference to allegations Marines killed civilians last year. […]
On the one year anniversary of Dick Cheney saying the insurgency was in their “last throes”, we find this out: The Sunni Arab heart of the Iraqi insurgency seems likely to hold its strength the rest of the year, and some of its leaders are now collaborating with al-Qaida terrorists, the Pentagon said Tuesday. In […]