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...Chiarelli gets ready to hand over Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno this month, there's some buzz at the Pentagon that he may return for a third tour, to replace Gen. George Casey as the top commanding general in Iraq. A few days before he began to pack his bags, Chiarelli shared his views on Iraq with TIME's Aparisim Ghosh. Exerpts from the interview...
...Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel that McHugh chairs is launching an inquiry this week into the way medals have been awarded in Iraq. The Department of Defense may be required to issue new standards or even reopen cases in which medals have been turned down or downgraded. The Pentagon, meanwhile, says it needed its own review to consider how combat--and how the military quantifies heroism--has changed since 9/11. It is considering whether there should be new guidelines set for consistency across the services. The Army, for example, has displayed a stunning generosity in handing...
...senior Marine general leaves his Pentagon office and heads to Capitol Hill Wednesday with grim news from Iraq. In a series of private briefings, he's expected to tell lawmakers that serious criminal charges - possibly including murder - are going to be leveled against as many as five Marines for the bloodbath at Haditha last year. The heads-up comes two weeks before the Marines are expected to publicly unveil the charges the week of Dec. 18 at the Marine base at Camp Pendleton, California...
...Natonski, Marines say, will echo what the commanders overseeing Iraq have told others: That Nov. 19 was a typically frantic day. According to a Pentagon source, the on-scene officers were dealing with "numerous" other significant events, including firefights and bombings. A bombing that killed 15 "would be one of maybe a dozen high-interest items in a single day," says an officer who served in Iraq. But it is clear that Marines misreported the initial incident, did not correct it, and officers did not investigate it. The question Natonski will get - and one that may be answered...
...Regardless of the pain caused the Pentagon by the Haditha probe, it can take some solace from a new study by Colin Kahl of the University of Minnesota. "Despite some dark spots on its record, the U.S. military has done a better job of respecting noncombatant immunity in Iraq than is commonly believed," Kahl, an assistant professor of political science, says in the November-December issue of Foreign Affairs magazine. "I have found not only that U.S. compliance with noncombatant immunity in Iraq is relatively high by historical standards, but also that it has been improving since the beginning...