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KERRY: We asked. They said, Well, we can't tell you who the sources are. They give you this gobbledygook. I went over to the Pentagon. I saw the photographs. They told us specifically what was happening in certain buildings. It wasn...
...advisers believe all would be on the short list for Kerry's National Security Adviser or Secretary of State. Advisers also say Kerry's commitment to intelligence reform would require picking a Republican Secretary of Defense to win Capitol Hill's support in the inevitable battle with the Pentagon, which controls 90% of the spy budget. They have floated John McCain's name as a contender. --By Massimo Calabresi. With reporting by Douglas Waller/Washington
...believe that is the only way to stop Iraq's march toward the democracy terrorists fear." In the aftermath of Tuesday's carnage, Iraqi leaders of all stripes were quick to urge their constituents not to turn on ethnic or religious rivals. But U.S. Army General John Abizaid, the Pentagon commander responsible for Iraq, warned that "civil war is possible" if the violence escalates and conceded that Iraq's fledgling homegrown security forces remain "weak spots." Still, he said, there "is a much greater chance" that Iraq will emerge as "a stable and modern state...
...fact, while the size of the U.S. presence will shrink somewhat, from 120,000 to around 105,000, the U.S. military is hardly withdrawing. But the posture of U.S. troops in the country is a subject of debate. Critics say the Pentagon is pulling its military back too far in self-defense, leaving operating room for the insurgents. That seemed to be the view of the furious Shi'ites who pelted U.S. troops with shoes, bottles, metal pipes and stones when they showed up to help bomb victims last week...
...that a heavy military presence in the streets is an irritant, not a reassurance. But the U.S. has also been moving its forces out of the cities into walled-off garrisons to reduce American casualties. Now in the midst of the largest troop rotation since World War II, the Pentagon is replacing seasoned Army combat divisions, in part, with Marines and a sizable corps of reserve and National Guard units (they will make up nearly 40% of the post-June force) unfamiliar with the country, lacking in hands-on experience and trained to operate quite differently. In January before...