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Sunday, 26 August 2007 |
A senior U.S. commander in central Iraq said yesterday that a reduction of U.S. forces in his region this year would be "a giant step backwards," allowing insurgents to quickly return and jeopardizing the military's "tactical momentum" in reducing violence.
"In my battlespace . . . I need the forces" until a transition to the Iraqi army and police is possible, said Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, who oversees a contentious region south of Baghdad. "That's not going to happen between now and Christmas," he told Pentagon reporters in a video conference from Iraq....read
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Sunday, 26 August 2007 |
CRAWFORD, Texas -- President Bush said Saturday that Iraqis are sacrificing dearly to secure their country, trying to underscore that the U.S. is not bearing the toll alone.
"Here at home, it can be easy to overlook the bravery shown by Iraqi troops and Iraqi civilians who are in the fight for freedom," Bush said in a radio address taped at his ranch in central Texas. "But our troops on the ground see it every day."...read
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Sunday, 26 August 2007 |
After the group returned from the trip, which also included visits to Pakistan and Afghanistan, Schakowsky and Gingrey offered opposite assessments during an appearance on Fox News. Drake's local newspaper in Newport News, the Daily Press, wrote an article about the contrast headlined "Drake, Democrats Tour Different Iraqs."...read
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Saturday, 25 August 2007 |
By Wesley Morgan, who is currently embedded in Iraq. Wes writes for The Daily Princetonian and was invited by Gen. David Petraeus to embed in Iraq. For my last embed, I went back to the unit I’d visited with Gen....read
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Saturday, 25 August 2007 |
Iraq has certainly not gone the way that I and other supporters of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein had hoped. Some British commentators argue for abandoning Iraq: the consequences, I believe, would be infinitely more horrible than the horrors we see today....read
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