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...Despite, or perhaps because, of the perceived Baker-Hamilton oversight, one senior retired military officer who held a number of command positions and is still well-connected to active duty generals has drawn up his own Iraq plan - and that plan is finding support in defense circles...
...Wednesday the Iraq War finally landed squarely at the feet of the U.S. military. At a Senate Armed Services hearing, Gen. John Abizaid, the Arab-American who heads the Pentagon's regional military command with responsibility for Iraq and Afghanistan, had his professional judgment and even his honesty sharply questioned. Abizaid, a West Point graduate and combat veteran, had long been held up as the Army's most sophisticated expert on the Middle East...
...flags," that were uncovered so troubled the Marine Corps that it took the unusual step of ordering a special criminal inquiry by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) to see if serious charges should be brought - a rare move to consider against officers so far up the chain of command...
...That process was further complicated by the fact that the Bargewell report was quite vague in parts, says a source who has seen it. Under the doctrine of command responsibility, superior officers can be considered responsible for war crimes committed by their subordinates if they were in a position to prevent the crimes and failed to do so. That NCIS investigation has now been completed and has not found enough evidence to bring serious charges - such as criminal negligence or obstruction of justice - against either Johnson or Huck because they did not know the details of what happened in Haditha...
...internal intrigue, Pelosi's job at least gives her a tight command of the House floor and requires her to pull together only a simple majority to get things done. Reid must surely envy that. It takes the support of 60 Senators--enough to get past a filibuster--to get anything controversial passed in the Senate; he's nine short of that. And while the majority leader has power over the schedule, the Senate's arcane rules give any individual Senator the power to bollix up the works...