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The Pentagon’s 2013 budget proposal released Monday calls for a 6 percent drop in overall spending, reflecting the end of the war in Iraq, the drawdown in Afghanistan and a delay in purchasing several new weapons systems. The budget sent to ...  
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Candidate Barack Obama promised to close the Guantanamo Bay prison. It is still open. Candidate Barack Obama criticized the troop surge in Iraq. President Obama implemented his own troop surge in Afghanistan. Candidate Barack Obama vowed to end what he criticized as Bush Administration offenses against human rights and civil liberties, including extraordinary rendition and targeted assassinations. President Obama has continued both, and even...  
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We hope 2012 election considerations didn't play a role in this decision. Obama, who opposed Bush's surge that turned the tide in Iraq, has often said he would decide on withdrawal of troops based on conditions on the ground. The conditions on ...  
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WASHINGTON -- As the Obama administration withdrew the last American troops from Iraq and officially ended the war this past week, Ohio lawmakers are as divided as ever about the almost nine-year-old conflict. The sentiments of the Ohio's ...  
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CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — A Marine sergeant charged in the biggest criminal case against U.S. troops in the Iraq war made a series of fatal assumptions and lost control of himself when he and his squad killed 24 Iraqis, including unarmed women and children, a military prosecutor said Monday. Maj. Nicholas Gannon made the accusations to a jury of battle-hardened Marines hearing the case against ...  
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FORT BRAGG, N.C. — More than three years after he campaigned against the Iraq war near this Army post, President Obama returned Wednesday to hail the hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops who fought to establish the “sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq” that America is leaving behind this month. With his wife, Michelle, by his side, Obama marked the United States’ imminent departure from Iraq ...  
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The last defendant in the biggest and lengthiest criminal case against U.S. troops to arise from the Iraq War is expected to stand trial this week, more than six years after his squad killed 24 Iraqis, including unarmed women and children.  
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WASHINGTON , Jan. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In honor of the dedicated service of U.S. troops in Iraq , The Washington Auto Show® will present a special military tribute on Tues, Jan. 31 .The Washington ...  
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LOCKPORT—An Iraq War combat veteran who said he is taking medication for sleeplessness and nightmares pleaded guilty Monday to damaging a door in a Niagara Falls bar where he was working.  
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Visiting the memorial in the Cork graveyard, John Fenton is still angry over his son’s death in the Iraq war.  
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McCain Spins Public on Iraq Troop Surge

By thepublicrecord on  From pubrecord.org
Over the past several months, John McCain and his backers have touted his early endorsement of the Iraq War “surge” as evidence of his political courage, but it could be equally viewed as an act of political desperation, to forestall total calamity in Iraq and to avert disaster for broader neoconservative objectives in the Middle East. McCain’s endorsement of the “surge” in January 2007 also represented a repudiation of his previous support for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s concept of...Read Full Story

Welcome to our wikizine called "Iraq Troop Surge"

By The_Zimbio_Team on
Wikizines are interactive magazines that anyone can create or edit - and this one is called "Iraq Troop Surge". Here you can find fresh voices and respond in real time. Some members write articles about recent news and trends related to the wikizine's topic, others recount relevant personal stories or share their favorite pictures and video clips. Got an interesting idea or story to share with other members of this wikizine? Well, then put on your journalist's cap and add your own article...Read Full Story

2 GOP senators back troop reduction in Iraq - Thei...

By hscpub on  From hammer2006.blogspot.com
2 GOP senators back troop reduction in Iraq - Their support for the nonbinding resolution is one more indicator of Republican discontent with Bush's strategy - Los Angeles Times Excerpt: "In another sign that congressional Republicans are losing patience with the White House war strategy, two GOP senators Thursday got behind new legislation designed to encourage the Bush administration to reduce U.S. military involvement in Iraq. Sens. Sam Brownback of Kansas and Gordon Smith of Oregon are...Read Full Story

US Says Iraq Troop Surge Complete

By newsfox on  From kerryfoxlive.com
BAGHDAD – The full contingent of new U.S. forces being sent to Iraq — what military leaders call a “surge” of troops to improve security and stability in the capital — was completed by Friday, with 28,500 additional troops now posted in the country, a U.S. military spokesman said. “The strategic movement of forces into the theater [...]Read Full Story

No Signs Iraq Troop Surge Is Working

By newsfox on  From kerryfoxlive.com
Three months into the new U.S. military strategy that has sent tens of thousands of additional troops into Iraq, overall levels of violence in the country have not decreased, as attacks have shifted away from Baghdad and Anbar, where American forces are concentrated, only to rise in most other provinces, according to a Pentagon report [...]Read Full Story
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