Tag: ready to go home

At least we admit it now: U.S. military officers offered their condolences on Monday to an Iraqi family south of Baghdad in a rare admission of error after killing two innocent Iraqis in an airstrike last Tuesday. A U.S. military statement released on January 31 said two “insurgents” out of a four-man team were killed […]

SIKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Thursday directed about 3,500 U.S. troops who have spent the past year in Iraq to stay up to four months past their scheduled departure date, boosting the size of the U.S. force amid unrelenting violence in Baghdad, officials said. The move, involving the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team from […]