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Defense Secretary: McChrystal Report Won't Request More Troops in Afghanistan
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyGen. Stanley McChrystal, the top commander in Afghanistan, is set to submit an assessment on the war within the next few weeks. On Thursday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said at least one thing would be missing from the report: contrary to widespread speculation, the general won't include in it a request for more troops. The Los Angeles Times reports that Gates said requests for additional troops would be considered both "separately and subsequent" to the upcoming report. Just this week, Anthony Cordesmon, who recently served as an adviser to McChrystal on Afghanistan, published an op-ed ...
Tours Get Shorter as Iraq Improves
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyPresident Bush, in a rare 8 AM statement, announced that effective tomorrow, combat tours for all new units deployed to Iraq will be shortened to twelve months from the current 15 months. The president cited the continuing improvements in the security situation in Iraq as a reason for the change, noting that violence in July was at its lowest levels in more than four years.This has been a month of encouraging news from Iraq. Violence is down to its lowest level since the spring of 2004, and we're now in our third consecutive month with reduced violence levels holding steady. General Petraeus ...
Obama Endorses McCain's Iraq Position
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyAs his week-long foreign trip concludes, Sen. Barack Obama appears to be coming around to the Bush Administration's, and Sen. John McCain's position on troop withdrawals from Iraq. Obama, who has been promising to end the war as his first act in office if elected, said for the first time in an interview with Newsweek that the pace of withdrawals should be dictated by conditions on the ground.NEWSWEEK: In Iraq, it's not new that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has wanted to take control of his own country. But there's always been this gap between his assessment of his abilities and American ...
Maliki's Actions Show His Meaning
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThere are three competing translations of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's now infamous remarks to the German magazine Der Spiegel about the potential withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. David Knowles provides the New York Times' version."Obama's remarks that-if he takes office-in 16 months he would withdraw the forces, we think that this period could increase or decrease a little, but that it could be suitable to end the presence of the forces in Iraq."He continued: "Who wants to exit in a quicker way has a better assessment of the situation in Iraq."That's hardly an unqualified ...
Maliki Obama 'Endorsement' Withdrawn
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe German magazine Der Spiegel sent the mainstream media and the American left into a tizzy this weekend when it reported that Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki endorsed Sen. Barack Obama's timetable for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. At first glance, the story seemed like a shot to the ribs of the McCain campaign, which has worked hard to gain the public's trust on the issue of the war in Iraq and national security in general. The trouble for the media, and Obama supporters, is that there was no Maliki endorsement. A spokesman in the Prime Minister's office disputed the magazine's ...
Agreement on 'Horizon' for Troop Presence
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe Bush Administration and the Iraqi government announced an agreement today that sets up a dialog between the two nations on a "general time horizon" for the U.S troop presence in Iraq. The Administration chose its wording carefully, and says that the language of the agreement does not commit the United States to an arbitrary timeline for the withdrawal of U.S. forces. White House spokesman Scott Stanzel stressed the any withdrawals under the agreement would be based upon an assessment of conditions on the ground, and not on political considerations."I think it's important to remember that ...
With Surge Over, Troops Could Be Coming Home
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyAdmiral Michael Mullen said today that he expects to be able to recommend troop reductions in Iraq this fall, as security gains from the troop surge continue to hold. Mullen made his comments in a Pentagon press conference with Defense Secretary Robert Gates on the occasion of the removal of the last of five additional brigades ordered into Iraq as a part of the surge. The withdrawal of the third infantry division's second brigade officially ended the surge, and went little noticed in the mainstream press, itself an indication of the strategy's effectiveness.Mullen said that any additional ...
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