Isn’t that what they say about the war in Iraq? I guess the bloody part is right: A car bomb killed 33 people in northern Iraq on Sunday, security officials said, hours before U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Baghdad to assess recent security gains and discuss troop levels. A U.S. military spokesman said […]
We are now into the 5th month since the “surge” started and it seems that every month is getting worse than that last. Here is the latest from that: The US military surge in Iraq, designed to turn around the course of the war, appears to be failing as senior US officers admit they need […]
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 […]
The plans to invade Iraq, written by Tommy Franks in 2002, shed light on the thinking within the military and administration prior to the invasion. The information was released concurrent to an FOIA act and George Washington University has them online. Most interesting is the following chart, which showed predictions of our troop levels dropping […]
Iraq is getting worse by the day and they are starting to give up on these little “rosie” assessments we have become use to hearing. Here is the latest news from the Pentagon: The U.S. military will likely maintain the current force levels of more than 140,000 troops in Iraq through next spring, the top […]
You know things are really bad in Iraq when Rumsfeld goes there and can’t even find anything good to say about the situation: “We’re at a point now when the security situation depends as much on the reconciliation process and on the strengthening of (government) ministries,” Rumsfeld told reporters. “Success in those areas will determine […]
Bush is out in full force doing his cowboy talk against other countries: “If the Iranians are trying to influence the outcome of the political process, or the outcome of the security situation there, we’re letting them know our displeasure,” Bush said. “Our call is for those in the neighborhood to allow Iraq to develop […]
A walk back in time. A time when a war with Iraq was a certainty and not a current event. That time is February of 2003. During that time our leaders on Capital Hill were trying to get answers to important questions regarding the upcoming war. They had Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld sitting before […]
Today was a day of great spin by our own Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld. In an interview with Meet the Press, host Tim Russert fired away some hard questions. The secretary seemed to be coming up with answers rather quickly, but if you listen closely you can hear how his own spin was catching […]