Iraq
(AP) "Gunmen in military uniforms kidnapped dozens of people Thursday" in the mixed Baghdad neighborhood of al-Sanak.
Same article: "Another police officer said authorities had stepped up security in Sadr City after receiving tips that 10 car bombs had entered the area and militants were trying to smuggle more in."
(Reuters) "Gunmen attacked the convoy of Iraq's Shi'ite vice president, Adel Abdul Mahdi, in Baghdad on Thursday, but there were no injuries."
(UPI) The NYTimes front page report of an oil deal last week was decidedly premature.
(Reuters) Bush plans on asking for another $100 billion in "emergency" funding for Iraq and Afghanistan, bringing the fiscal year total to $170 billion. ($30 billion less than the military requested.)
(NYTimes) The Dems, however, are going to try to end the "emergency" funding and force the war's costs into the budget.
(TimesOnline) "British troops to be 'out of Basra soon'"
And, as for the overall strategy, I have no idea. Bush seems to want to "surge" extra troops, but Abizaid and the Joint Chiefs seem to think that is a really bad idea. So, which "generals" do you listen to on troop levels? Obviously the ones who tell you what you want to hear.
Same article: "Another police officer said authorities had stepped up security in Sadr City after receiving tips that 10 car bombs had entered the area and militants were trying to smuggle more in."
(Reuters) "Gunmen attacked the convoy of Iraq's Shi'ite vice president, Adel Abdul Mahdi, in Baghdad on Thursday, but there were no injuries."
(UPI) The NYTimes front page report of an oil deal last week was decidedly premature.
(Reuters) Bush plans on asking for another $100 billion in "emergency" funding for Iraq and Afghanistan, bringing the fiscal year total to $170 billion. ($30 billion less than the military requested.)
(NYTimes) The Dems, however, are going to try to end the "emergency" funding and force the war's costs into the budget.
(TimesOnline) "British troops to be 'out of Basra soon'"
And, as for the overall strategy, I have no idea. Bush seems to want to "surge" extra troops, but Abizaid and the Joint Chiefs seem to think that is a really bad idea. So, which "generals" do you listen to on troop levels? Obviously the ones who tell you what you want to hear.
posted by mikevotes at
8:14 AM
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Here's an interesting essay by a young Marine about our current state of affairs: http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/martin-p1.html
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Anonymous, at 4:40 PM
Gotta check it later, but thanks
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mikevotes, at 5:25 PM
The Dems, however, are going to try to end the "emergency" funding and force the war's costs into the budget.
ISG recomendation #72:
Costs for the war in Iraq should be included in the President's annual budget request, starting FY 2008: the war is in its fourth year, and the normal budget process should not be circumvented. Funding requests for the war in Iraq should be presented clearly to Congress and the American people. Congress must carry out its constitutional responsibility to review budget requests for the war in Iraq carefully and to conduct oversight.
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Praguetwin, at 6:06 AM
Oh yeah.They were talking about it well before the ISG, but, both the Dems and the ISG came to that conclusion because it's the RIGHT thing to do abd they don't hve to try to hide the cost of their war.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 7:36 AM
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