But the commanders want until next year for the “surge” to work: The Pentagon announced yesterday that 35,000 soldiers in 10 Army combat brigades will begin deploying to Iraq in August as replacements, making it possible to sustain the increase of U.S. troops there until at least the end of this year. U.S. commanders in […]
As if our depleted man power isn’t enough, now we get our war planes running down: The Air Force’s fleet of warplanes is older than ever and wearing out faster because of heavy use in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the service’s top combat commander. Gen. Ronald Keys, who leads the Air Combat Command, points […]
Is it the troops? Nope. His true concern is that if Iraq don’t get better by September, it might hurt the Republicans in 2008. That is what he told Chris Wallace on FOX yesterday. Crooks and Liars has the video. Another really interesting thing he said in the interview was we won’t know until then […]
The biggest problem in Iraq is the sectarian violence, so why are they removing leaders who are trying to stop it? A department of the Iraqi prime minister’s office is playing a leading role in the arrest and removal of senior Iraqi army and national police officers, some of whom had apparently worked too aggressively […]
Laure Bush told Anne Curry on the Today show that when it comes to Iraq “no one suffers more than than the President or I do”. Excuse me? No one? How about the family of the 3,333 soldiers who have died in this lie? How about the tens of thousands of soldiers who are permanently […]
The Bush supporting GOP machine is fracturing: In another sign of Republican unease with the president’s Iraq policies, a third GOP senator expressed support Thursday for pulling U.S. forces out of Iraq under certain conditions. Sen. Olympia J. Snowe announced she would sponsor a bill to require American commanders to plan a withdrawal within 120 […]
Our country suffers the loss of 12 more soldiers, which have died in Iraq since Monday. How much killing has gone on under George W. Bush?
And how that escalation is working: BAGHDAD — Four large bombs exploded across Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 127 people and wounding scores as violence climbed toward levels seen before the U.S.-Iraqi campaign to pacify the capital began two months ago. In the deadliest of the attacks, a parked car bomb detonated in a […]
I have been fuming over this one for the past week. The Mitt Romney flack over him being a hunter has exposed a bigger problem in our political system. It doesn’t matter if he hunted 2 times or 1000 times or if he has killed 2 rabbits or killed enough to put them on the […]