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...Command, the region that includes both Iraq and Afghanistan. Abizaid and Army Gen. George Casey, the ground commander in Iraq, have overseen the war for years and are drawing at least some of the blame for allowing Iraq to disinintegrate on their watch. As Douglas MacGregor, a retired Army Col. and military writer, observed recently: "Tactical blunders have strategic consequences and the generals have blundered badly in Iraq. In war, military strategy is supposed to reduce the probability of armed conflict, to persuade those who might fight not to fight, and when necessary, to win at the least cost...
...testify. This distrust is symptomatic of a profound loss of faith in Arroyo herself. She is an unpopular President, plagued by corruption scandals and slammed for her failure to improve living standards. Arroyo has condemned the killings, but she will not implicate the military?even as it implicates itself. Col. Eduardo del Rosario, head of a military antiterrorist unit called Task Force Davao, admitted to TIME earlier this year that "individual commanders" might be responsible for the killings...
...Marine spokesman would not comment about the invesitgations or when they might end. "The investigation is ongoing... as soon as the facts are known and decisions on future actions are made, we will make that information available to the public to the fullest extent allowable," says Lt. Col. Sean Gibson...
...James Haynes II; and David S. Addington, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff. Senior military officers named in the filing are General Ricardo Sanchez, the former top Army official in Iraq; Gen. Geoffrey Miller, the former commander of Guantanamo; senior Iraq commander, Major General Walter Wojdakowski; and Col. Thomas Pappas, the one-time head of military intelligence at Abu Ghraib...
...TIME's story, the Pentagon issued a statement saying that Cardona's transfer is being "evaluated" and that his movement with his unit into Iraq from a staging area in Kuwait has been "stopped." But the U.S. military in Iraq went further. "He's not coming to Iraq," Lt. Col. Josslyn L. Aberle, chief of media operations for the Multinational Corps in Iraq stated flatly. And indeed, by Friday afternoon, the Pentagon said in a statement that Cardona "will depart Kuwait and will return to Fort Bragg immediately...