However, if it is over, how come Bush et al say we have to win it?  Did the Bushies tell us the war will be over, but the occupation will last years and years? I see this week the Pentagon has plans to keep US troop levels at 140,000 until ...

Mick - two dynamics appear to be converging - Gates and his Pentagon planners considering accelerated troop withdrawals to begin in September - a la John Murtha’s Redeployment Plan - and al-Maliki’s continued confidence that Iraqis can go ...

troops or set a nonbinding target to remove most troops by the end of next year. "Even those of us who have disagreed on this war have always agreed on one thing: Troops in the field will not be left without the resources they need," said Minority ...

" He declared that his support for the troop surge in Iraq proved to have been correct, and he acknowledged that it probably hurt his candidacy last year before it became apparent the strategy had helped ... "Osama has been able to get out a ...

I wonder how strongly he believes that and how hard he will fight to increase not only the troop level but the finances to pay for the increase in troops ... Notice he went against the will of his party by suggesting additional troops would be ...

troops or set a nonbinding target to remove most troops by the end of next year. "Even those of us who have disagreed on this war have always agreed on one thing: Troops in the field will not be left without the resources they need," said Minority ...

A British Army spokesman for southern Iraq, Major Tom Holloway, said that while Western forces had not entered Basra, the operation already involved nearly 30,000 Iraqi troops and police forces, with more arriving ... Even before the crackdown on ...

I do not want to do anything to perpetuate this distraction between Leonard and Tom, but Leonard did bring up a good point that has been gnawing at me since the word "coward" was first uttered to describe our troops ...   Why is that? ...

Serving contaminated water to the troops and using money earmarked for troop recreation for their own company picnic - whatever happened to "support our troops. " They got the job done so well, these civilian contractors that brought torture ...

Troops on the move Patrols everywhere: Hundreds of paramilitary troops aboard at least 80 trucks were seen traveling along the main road winding through the mountains into southeastern Tibet ... " Protests widen: The troop mobilization ...

Sure, Rush and O'Reilley will devote endless hours to analyzing and extolling how bringing home the troops is a chip from the motherlode of international diplomacy but, even in that maneuver, Bush is finally doing MY bidding, as well as John Murtha's, ...

) As much as I think Ron Paul is a kook when it comes to domestic policy (and some foreign policy), I'll have to admit that he is absolutely correct to point out that the marked decrease in mortality in areas outside of Baghdad is not due to an ...

  This administration has a record of lying about the number of troop deaths and how they died ... Another factor in the Iraq to Vietnam comparison, from wiki, Country Branch of service Number served Killed Wounded Missing ...

Why does the left gleefully cheerlead and hope for bad news and troop deaths in Iraq and bad economic news here at home? *** No one wants more deaths in Iraq ...   As a matter of fact, I'm sure the crowd is hoping for lot's of ...

troops often have fought intense gunbattles as they cleared neighborhoods in Baghdad and former Sunni insurgent havens such as Anbar and Diyala provinces ... troops, meanwhile, find themselves increasingly drawn into the fight opened by the Iraqi ...