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...democracy, generals take their orders from civilian politicians and, as a rule, do their best not to embarrass them. Seems the chief of the British army didn't get the memo. Last week General Richard Dannatt, Chief of the General Staff, gave interviews to [an error occurred while processing this directive] the London Daily Mail and the bbc that had 10 Downing Street scrambling. True, Dannatt pointed out that British troops had made enough progress to turn over control of two southern provinces to Iraqi forces. But he also said that "the mere fact that we are still in some...
...Upper estimate of civilian deaths, by Iraq Body Count...
...Surviving the slippery slopes of power may be hard for generals, and of course it is right that they respect civilian control by not wading into political debates. But with lives are at stake, Dannatt felt compelled to speak: "Honesty is what it is all about. The truth will out. We have got to speak the truth...
...course, the entire Arab-Israeli conflict, like all wars, is plagued by the chronic accusations of “they attacked us first,” when realistically, everyone shares the blame. Palestinian militants and the Israel Defense Forces are equally responsible for attacks on civilian areas and, in doing so, both breach international...
PLEADED GUILTY. Melson Bacos, 21, U.S. Navy medic; to kidnapping and conspiracy in the murder of Iraqi civilian Hashim Ibrahim Awad; at Camp Pendleton, Calif. As part of a plea deal--murder and other charges against him were dropped--Bacos testified that he tried to intervene, then watched as two Marines fired 10 rounds into Awad's head after abducting him from his home in the Iraqi town of Hamdania. One of seven Marines charged in the crime, Bacos was first to go to a court-martial...