After the Petraeus report it seems the Congressional Democrats’ hope for Republican defections to order a quick withdrawal from Iraq is going to end up in frustration again.
Senate Republicans, bolstered by Army Gen. David H. Petraeus’ war report this week, are closing ranks and say Democrats will continue to fall far shy of the votes [...]
Senior congressional aides are saying the White House wants to limit the Petraeus report to a private congressional briefing, while the White House says that has been considered but they will not shield Gen. Petraeus from public testimony to the Congress and will abide by the legislation passed in May.
The congressional aides say the White [...]
It appears the surge is working now that the full complement of troops is in place.
Fed up with being part of a group that cuts off a person’s face with piano wire to teach others a lesson, dozens of low-level members of al-Qaeda in Iraq are daring to become informants for the US military in [...]
A recent press release from United States Central Command tells a bit of a different story on the situation in parts of Iraq than those we read in the newspapers daily.
Surge progress may lead to troop reductions in northern Iraq, general says
BAGHDAD — Now at full strength, the U.S. troop surge in Iraq is showing [...]
Michael Yon was a guest on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show yesterday. In reading the transcript there were a few points I found interesting.
HH: Now Michael Yon, a lot of people don’t know the significance of Baquba. And so can you explain what peace in Baquba means for the larger war effort?
MY: Well, it’s [...]
Something rang true with me this morning when reading Grim at Blackfive.
The whole point of the Surge is to address this particular problem. It is six months in the making, if you count from the start of the buildup. If the politicos in Washington set goals that Iraq could not realize, that is [...]
The less famous cousin of “Anonymous Sources”, named “Anonymous Officials” and another one named “Anonymous Senior Official” have told the New York Times there is an “ongoing discussion” in the White House as to strategy to stop more Republican senators from defecting from their support for the war in Iraq.
According to the “Anonymous” family, the [...]
A reader of my former blog by the name of Caleb has written an article about the surge, based on information from a source who is high up in the military structure of our country.
Caleb has given me permission to post this story on this site.
We have all heard what Gen. Barry McCaffrey has said, [...]
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