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...call "denial and deception" is a key part of any military campaign, and congressional Democrats believe it is also figuring into the campaign to secure funding for the Iraq war. As the Bush administration and Democrats on Capitol Hill square off over war funding, the White House and its Pentagon allies are warning that the military will soon have to start shutting down stateside bases if more money isn't provided for the war. But congressional Democrats say there is plenty of slush in the Pentagon's funds, and that the military, and the war, can continue running at full...
...Defense experts disagree on the seriousness of the Pentagon's funding crunch. Of course, if war - as the great Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz put it - is simply the continuation of politics by other means, it should be no surprise that funding a war as controversial as Iraq will be a highly contentious business. And while the Pentagon can surely move money between its various funding streams to keep the war going for a while, it's also obvious that the Bush administration is counting on a political backlash to force the Democrats to back down, as they...
...Each side has a piece of the truth on its side. With the nation at war, Pentagon bureaucrats have far better things to do than juggle accounts to keep the war machine humming while planning to lay off some 200,000 civilians and contractors if Congress fails to pass a bill acceptable to the White House. But the Administration is encouraging the sense of an impending train wreck, shouting early and often that doom is just ahead. "There is a misperception that this department can continue funding our troops in the field for an indefinite period of time through accounting...
...retired two-star general and former head of the Army War College. "A whole new generation of officers is coming out of Iraq with new views on how wars should be fought, and its archetype is Dave Petraeus." Defense Secretary Robert Gates approved the unusual assignment, according to Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell, because of Petraeus' "progressive" counterinsurgency skills, which rely on persuasion and security as much as on coercion and combat...
...asserted that he can be a President who does not rely on "briefing books and power points." He did not go to Washington to be named "Mr. Congeniality," he said at the speech's closing, and he took pride in having made special interests, defense contractors and the Pentagon "angry...But I love America. I love her enough to make some people angry...