Word: commandingly
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...April was the bloodiest month of the Iraq war so far. Now the Bush Administration and U.S. military commanders are adding insult to injury. After fierce battles with insurgents in Fallujah, the military has agreed to turn over command to a new militia headed by former Iraqi army officers. What's the point of this? It seems that the American soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice at Fallujah died for nothing. And that is what George W. Bush calls progress? This war has never been about WMD threats or Saddam Hussein. It is about an Administration's obsession with power...
...hall from Donald Rumsfeld's third-floor office at the Pentagon is a high-tech conference room where U.S. generals arrayed around the globe can talk to the Pentagon boss--and with his boss, if he happens to stop by. That is exactly what happened last week when Central Command chief General John Abizaid, appearing via videophone from Qatar, admitted that he was worried about the political fallout back home from the Abu Ghraib prison-abuse scandal. Hearing this, George W. Bush peered back at Abizaid, who oversees two continuing wars in Asia, and told him to ignore the static...
...continued by Bill Clinton--of containing Iraqis with sanctions, a no-fly zone and the occasional clocker to the head, Bush simply decided that containment wasn't working anymore. The Administration spent millions to prop up a dubious group of Iraqi exiles led by Ahmad Chalabi--former Central Command boss Anthony Zinni has called them "the Gucci guerrillas from London"--who helped generate the secret "intelligence" needed to create a rationale for pre-emptive war. Much of the intelligence turned out to be flawed or confected, and when the CIA balked at some of the claims, the Pentagon...
...stand there, hold this leash, look at the camera.’” Maj. Gen. Antonio Taquba, who led the initial investigation into the abuses, has spoken of an overall “failure of leadership.” In the military, the chain of command goes all the way to the top. A scandal of this magnitude leads to the secretary of defense, and ultimately to the commander-in-chief as well...
Denial was of little use because the pictures told the story in a universal language of domination. And the perps in the pictures were somehow familiar, the giddy weekend warriors under the command of the traveling window-blind salesman, the boy next door--and the girl. This time women can't privately tell one another that if only we were in charge, we might all have a chance of getting along, because there she is, Private England, gloating, holding the leash. And the female general in command was telling reporters last summer that conditions were so much nicer...