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...Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli's two tours of duty in Iraq have coincided with some of the worst violence the country has experienced since the fall of Saddam Hussein. As commander of the 1st Cavalry, Chiarelli experienced the first spasm of the Shi'ite revolt when, in the summer of 2004, Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army fought pitched battles against U.S. forces in Baghdad and Najaf. But the main vector of violence in Iraq was the Sunni insurgency, supported by foreign jihadis...
...Gen. Richard Natonski, who will brief the House and Senate armed services committees behind closed doors, has experience investigating alleged Marine wrongdoing in Iraq. Critics claimed a videotape of a Marine shooting a prone Iraqi inside a mosque in 2005 was an example of a war crime, but Natonski disagreed. As the senior officer responsible for deciding how to handle the case, he cleared the Marine, saying the Iraqi used an insurgent's "common tactic" when he concealed his left arm behind his head and "feigned death." Insurgents would often then "rise to continue fighting." In what many sources...
...Levin, in his questioning, read to Gates the response of CENTCOM chief Gen. John Abizaid at a Nov. 15 Armed Service Committee meeting, when McCain pressed him on his proposal to send more troops to Iraq: "I've met with every divisional commander, General Casey, the corps commander, General Dempsey - we all talked together. And I said, 'In your professional opinion, if we were to bring in more American troops now, does it add considerably to our ability to achieve success in Iraq?' And they all said no. And the reason is because we want the Iraqis to do more...
...MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGHAt this year’s Citizen Schools Gala in May, 8GA alumnus Hugo D. Desius said he aspired to be a doctor and that the program was key in developing his ambitions.“In Haiti they say ‘Dye mon, gen mon’—beyond the mountain is another mountain. That means that in life there is one challenge after another,” Desius says. “Citizen Schools has helped me climb one mountain. It also prepares me and thousands of others to climb the mountains ahead...
...reminder of the predicament in which U.S. forces find themselves in Iraq. U.S.-led security operations have recently come in for heavy criticism by Iraqis, especially Shi'ites. But when the security situation deteriorates, many Iraqis blame the only credible military presence in the country - the U.S. military. Lt. Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli, the commanding general of the Multinational Corps in Iraq, told TIME last week that it was unreasonable to expect the U.S. forces to win hearts and minds in Iraq, but that "it's all about winning their trust and confidence...