Due To Obama, Pentagon Planning Faster Iraq Withdrawal
WASHINGTON — Military commanders are drawing up plans for a faster withdrawal of American troops from Iraq in anticipation that President-elect Barack Obama will reject current proposals as too slow, Pentagon and military officials said Wednesday. The new plans would provide alternatives to a timetable drawn up by the top American commanders for Iraq to bring troops home more slowly than Mr
Byron Williams: Where has the time gone?
Dear President Bush, Has it been eight years already? Where did the time go
Robert Guttman: George W. Bush: Certainly Not Our Best President, But Probably Not Our Worst
George W.
Iraq: Bombs Aimed At Security Forces Kill 9
BAGHDAD — A series of bombs targeting Iraqi security forces ripped through busy areas in Baghdad on Monday, killing at least nine people, police said. The violence began when two vehicles parked about 50 yards (meters) apart exploded in quick succession just after 7 a.m.
U.S. Finds Iraq Tactics Don’t Work In Afghan War
DELARAM, Afghanistan — On a sunset patrol here in late December, U.S.
Mark Green: 10 Big Goals for Obama’s First 1460 Days, as Proposed by Progressive Policy Leaders
Based on his 2008 campaign and 2009 exigencies, President Obama’s mandate includes two huge and imminent priorities — an unprecedented “stimulus” to revive the economy and a plan that gets us out of Iraq. And then?
Bush "Fox News Sunday" Interview: I Refused To "Bail Out" GOP
President Bush says he refused to “bail out my political party” by withdrawing troops “during the darkest days of Iraq,” a decision now lauded by his father in an unprecedented joint interview of both presidents by Brit Hume on “FOX News Sunday.” “During the darkest days of Iraq, people came to me and said, ‘You’re creating incredible political difficulties for us,’” the current president said as his term draws to a close. “And I said, ‘Oh, really?
S.D. Liddick: COP Haditha
The Syrian Desert is cold in December. I knew from similar country in Southern California and Nevada it would be like this.
Tom Hayden: Obama’s Wars
On January 21, President Barack Obama will take personal responsibility for the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan launched under President Bush.
Bob Ostertag: Death of an American Hero
An American hero died last week. One you have almost certainly never heard of, by the name of Tom Bernard.
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