Marines Want Out Of Iraq
Report: Top General Pushing To Redeploy Marines To Afghanistan, Leaving Iraq To Army
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Firefighters try to extinguish the flames after a suicide car bomb struck a busy market in Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday, Oct. 11, 2007. Seven people were killed and 50 wounded in the attack. (AP Photo/Yahya Ahmed)
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A woman weeps as U.S. Army soldiers from B Troop, 1st Squadron, 40th Cavalry detain her male relatives in a pre-dawn raid in the Radwaniyah area of southern Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2007. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
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Detainees wait for their release from a U.S.-run facility at Camp Victory in Baghdad, Oct. 10, 2007. About 60 a day were released during Ramadan – which ended Wednesday - as a goodwill gesture by the U.S. (AP)
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Karon (left) and Nora, daughters of Marou Awanis, one of two Christian women killed Oct. 9, 2007, in Baghdad by members of a private security firm, are seen here the next day at their mother's funeral in Baghdad. (AP)
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The commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. James T. Conway, raised the issue with Defense Secretary Robert Gates last week, the Times reported. Senior military and Pentagon officials said supporters of the proposal, including some in the Army, believe that such a realignment could allow both services to operate more efficiently in the face of strains on the separate forces.
No major Marine units are among the 26,000 U.S. forces in Afghanistan while 25,000 Marines are among the 160,000 U.S. troops there, the paper noted.
Army and Pentagon leaders have warned repeatedly that the long, deadly and repeated deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan have stretched and stressed the Army, its soldiers and its families nearly to the breaking point. And there has been ongoing debate about how the service should transform itself to better meet the challenges of future wars.
At a news conference in London, Gates played down the talk about the Marines leaving Iraq.
"I had heard that they were beginning to think about that, and that's all that I've heard," Gates said. "I've seen no plan. No one has come to me with any proposals about it. My understanding is that it's, at this point, extremely preliminary thinking on the part of perhaps the staff in the Marine Corps. But I don't think at this point it has any stature."
Gates also said he is comfortable with Britain's decision to halve its troop levels in Iraq by spring, saying the plan had been worked out jointly with U.S. commanders.
In other developments:
On Wednesday, Iraqi officials demanded answers of an Australian-owned security company blamed in the killing of two Iraqi women. The scrutiny of Unity Resources Group began a day after its guards allegedly gunned down the two Armenian Christian women in their car.
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See all 169 CommentsPosted by Smirk5
No, but I bet alot of you far left flies couldn''t wait for this page to open thinking, "Even the Marines want to leave because it is so politically incorrect."
I can only imagine your surprise when it turns out they were looking for a real fight (ie - things were getting boring!)
Plus, even when the Democrats admitted that the surge was working, they wanted to shift the argument to the political goals not being met. The Marines don''''t need to be there anymore, and that''''s the reason they are pushing for redeployment.
Posted by s1ckd09 at 08:06 AM : Oct 12, 2007
Ok, General s1ckd09.
What was the reason for the "surge" ??
If the surge is working - why end it ?
If the surge is working - then those political goals "should" be met !!
Plus, even when the Democrats admitted that the surge was working, they wanted to shift the argument to the political goals not being met. The Marines don''t need to be there anymore, and that''s the reason they are pushing for redeployment.
So many people I know signed up for the US Military to defend us against attacks, not to plunder Iraq for economic profiteering from war spending and raping that land. No WONDER they want to go to Afghanistan - to find the real killer - OJ, er, I mean Osama!
LETS SEE HOW LONG BEFORE THE BUSH ATTACK DOGS RUIN HIS CAREER!
Too bad you will now have a short tenure as commandant.
Why is CBS and other major news outlets burying this story!? Why don''t they want you to know this!?
Good night "Dog Face," we''ll do it again sometime.
Posted by drummer94 at 10:09 PM : Oct 11, 2007,
Nite to you too drummer.
Posted by drummer94 at 10:01 PM : Oct 11, 2007,
Yes we did, right on the front page; the wife framed a copy and it''s hanging in our bedroom.
I''ve had my 15 minutes of fame.
I like that the most...
dscott407
Posted by tuckerndfw at 09:56 PM : Oct 11, 2007,
I don''t care, it''s the 14th; I knew there was somthing about you that I liked, you''re a Scorpio too. In case you didn''t know, they rule the *** sign in the Zodiac.
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