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...catastrophe would be extraordinary," said an Army colonel. If partition happens, an Iraqi official told Reuters, "Iraq as a political project is finished," and chaos ensues. Colonel Hammes identified a more basic, undeniable problem: "Talking about a new strategy is useless until we get a new team-in the Pentagon, in the Administration. These guys have screwed up everything. They haven't got the credibility to implement anything...
...9/11, the U.S. military is feeling a different sort of pressure at home: a money crunch. Despite ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress has been slow to approve defense funds, even for the Army and Marines, which have borne the brunt of the fighting. That has left the Pentagon with a huge deficit--even though a 40% hike in its budget since 9/11 has swelled its yearly funding to nearly half a trillion dollars...
...could save money by ditching expensive projects like the high-tech $160 billion Future Combat Systems, a battlefield command-and-control program. The Army and Marines are making cuts but are also set to fight for more funds. Defense officials say the two services are considering openly defying the Pentagon's civilian leadership, which has pushed for slower spending, by submitting budgets that break preapproved ceilings...
...acts in Mahmudiya "absolutely inexcusable and unacceptable." Officials say one purpose of their pledge to vigorously and transparently investigate and prosecute the crimes is to quell the calls from Iraqis, among them Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, to stop granting U.S. troops immunity from local prosecution, a notion that Pentagon officials consider "a nonstarter," especially in a country whose legal system is practically nonexistent...
...Pentagon won't say how long it took to process Green's case. But even if his possible instability helped lead to the atrocity, that doesn't explain why his fellow soldiers allegedly participated in the incident--including one who reportedly joined Green in the rape--and helped him cover his tracks. The names of these other soldiers have yet to be released...