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Protestors will greet General John Abizaid when the top U.S. commander in the Middle East speaks at the Institute of Politics (IOP) tomorrow. The Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice (HIPJ), Socialist Alternative, and the Stop Torture Coalition are all planning rallies to offer a counterpoint to the speech by the officer credited with coining the term “The Long War” to describe the war on terror. Off-campus groups will also join the protest. The speech comes in the wake of a mid-term election in which voter dissatisfaction with the war in Iraq played...
...Abizaid did make a startling admission, apparently for the first time, that he agreed with then-Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki that there should have been more U.S. troops in Iraq in 2003. Abizaid, who has been increasingly criticized within the military as too cautious and too political, spent the rest of the session defending his view that no more U.S. troops are needed in Iraq now. Abizaid offered nothing new despite the fact that the American view of Iraq has changed dramatically with the election results in the past week. The senators, searching for political cover, needed...
...Abizaid opened his appearance by saying things had gotten better in Iraq and he was "optimistic." He stated that the U.S. military needed to increase the size of the number of advisors, speed up the provision of logistical support to the Iraqi Security Forces, and continue to push the Iraqi government to disband the militias. In a troubling aside to a question, Abizaid admitted that he had considered sending "significantly more" U.S. troops, but that the Iraqi government had not accepted the proposal...
...wasn't just Democrats that hammered the General. Abizaid faced withering verbal fire from across the aisle too. Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham seemed dumbfounded that Abizaid lacked a real sense of urgency and would not entertain the idea of sending in more U.S. troops, especially to Anbar province where, experts say, the Marine Corps have too few troops Instead, Abizaid kept repeating that it is for the Iraqi government to save itself and the country. McCain at one point, grimacing and shaking his head, barked to Abizaid: "I deeply regret that you seem to think the status...
...grim testimony from the two spymasters came shortly after the chief of the U.S. Central Command, General John Abizaid, tried his best to offer the same committee a rosier picture of the war. Abizaid insisted that conditions in Iraq weren't "nearly as bad" as last August when he had publicly warned that the country might be slipping into civil...