Iraq Troops

Sam Stein

Gates Praises Obama, Outlines New Defense World

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.02.2008 | Politics

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Newly re-appointed Defense Secretary Bob Gates took questions from the press on Tuesday, outlining some agenda items that the Obama administration is ...

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What's Bringing Together 50 Cent, Kid Rock, and Beyoncé? Showing Real Support for the Troops

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics

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Paul Rieckhoff

Every time the media ignores the Iraq War in favor of stories about wardrobe malfunctions and who's in rehab this week, I blow a fuse. So why am I talking celebrities?

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Bush Admin Told Iraq Government It Wanted Troops To Stay Until 2015

Reuters | Posted 08.27.2008 | Politics

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The United States asked Iraq for permission to maintain a troop presence there to 2015, but U.S. and Iraqi negotiators agreed to limit their authoriza...

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Bush Hits Home

Darryle Pollack | Posted 08.01.2008 | Living

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Darryle Pollack

My daughter is a military wife. Which makes me a military mother-in-law. Which means that I have a personal interest in Bush's announcement about shorter combat tours.

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Who's Paying The Biggest Price Now For Our War In Iraq? Our National Guard.

Bobby Muller | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics

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Bobby Muller

Almost half of the soldiers scheduled to deploy to Iraq are members of our National Guard. We can't maintain this -- it is another cost of the war, one that is too great for our country to bear.

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Military Chief: US Doesn't Have Enough Troops To Send To Afghanistan

Washington Post | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

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From The Washington Post: The nation's top military officer said yesterday that more U.S. troops are needed in Afghanistan to tamp down an increasin...

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Secret US Plan Sets No Time Limit For US Presence In Iraq

The Guardian (U.K.) | Seumas Milne | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

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A confidential draft agreement covering the future of US forces in Iraq, passed to the Guardian, shows that provision is being made for an open-ended ...

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Pentagon Brass Split On Troop Levels

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 02.02.2008 | Home

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WASHINGTON — A new burst of violence in Iraq sharpens the differences among U.S. military leaders over how to balance the risk of pulling U.S. t...

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Ailing GIs Deployed To War Zones

Denver Post | Erin Emery | Posted 01.17.2008 | Politics

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Fort Carson sent soldiers who were not medically fit to war zones last month to meet "deployable strength" goals, according to e-mails obtained by The...

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A Drunken Night In Iraq, A Soldier Is Left Behind

Washington Post | Donna St. George | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics

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he sun had not yet risen in Taji. A young Army soldier lay alone in the dirt. She was alive, but barely. Her ribs had been crushed; her spleen, ruptur...

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