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...experience of the 10th Mountain Division in Afghanistan may offer a glimpse of what is in store for the rest of America's thinly stretched army after the Pentagon announced, on April 11, that the standard Army deployment in Afghanistan and Iraq would now be 15 months rather than the previous 12-month stint...
...Pentagon announced that 35,000 more soldiers are likely to head to Iraq before year's end to maintain the troop surge. Meanwhile, those most responsible for launching the war continue to retreat from public life. Unlike soldiers, who can be barred from shedding their uniforms when their enlistment ends if they are bound for or in a war zone, civilians get no such "stop loss" orders...
Donald Rumsfeld is gone. His war deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, also left the Pentagon and is fighting for his professional life as president of the World Bank. The Pentagon's former No. 3 civilian, policy chief Doug Feith, is at Georgetown University. He and a fellow faculty member, ex-CIA boss George Tenet, are busy lobbing charges over who is responsible for Iraq's deterioration. At the White House, two top aides responsible for Iraq policy are leaving their posts...
World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz amassed a legion of enemies as the militant muse behind the Iraq invasion. They pursued him as he migrated from the Pentagon to the World Bank, promising a war on poverty and corruption. So evidence that he arranged his girlfriend's $60,000 raise invited critics to pounce: How can we fight cronyism abroad if we practice it at home? Some opponents suggested that whatever the facts of the case, the very fact of the scandal made it impossible for him to remain effective...
...Tenet's barbs for Rice are few compared to those he directs at Vice President Cheney, his former top aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby and a host of neo-conservative fellow travelers at the Pentagon. With very few declarative sentences that anyone can quote, Tenet nonetheless repeatedly makes it clear that neoconservatives in and out of the Bush Administration quietly pushed the U.S. to war with Iraq from the very first day after 9/11. The decision to go to war was made, he said, without any clear decision meetings; it proceeded at a number of critical points without any guidance from...