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...Administration now knows that coalition forces alone cannot bring peace to Iraq. As the CIA report said--and the Pentagon acknowledges--Iraqis will always be better than the Americans at ferreting out intelligence about insurgents. That helps explain why many in Washington privately say they regret Bremer's decision to disband the Iraqi army on May 23. U.S. officials are urgently searching for potential leaders of a new Iraqi army. An Arab businessman in close touch with the U.S. government tells TIME that one commander who has attracted attention is Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai, a Sunni Muslim...
...There’s a deep desire to see Robert McNamara as Satan incarnate,” Morris said, alluding to the fact that McNamara headed the Pentagon during the early years of Vietnam and failed to denounce the war for decades after leaving office...
...access to the PDBs, the 9/11 commission should demand full disclosure from the White House. If the administration refuses to be more forthcoming, the panel should make use of its subpoena powers, which it has already deployed to procure important documents from the Federal Aviation Administration and the Pentagon. The security of high-level intelligence is imperative, but that security is more than sufficiently guaranteed within the auspices of the independent investigative commission. Our leaders must not forget that it is the physical security of the United States that is paramount, and to that end, accountability on the part...
...another for seats in the new assembly. Their political survival and prosperity now depends on their ability to stack the provincial nominating conventions with their supporters. For some, like the Kurdish parties that have a strong regional base, it's a relatively easy path. But for others, like the Pentagon-favored Iraqi National Congress of Ahmed Chalabi, which appears to have no significant regional or popular base, it may be a moment of truth...
...August of 2002, HLS announced that it would exempt military recruiters from its nondiscrimination requirements because of a Pentagon threat to follow through on the amendment...