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...John Murtha was running for dog-catcher or President of the United States, Nancy Pelosi would support him," one Pelosi ally told TIME. And Pelosi credits Murtha's call for troop withdrawal as a bold move that helped Democrats win last week's elections. Still, it's not entirely clear how strongly Pelosi will back Murtha; her letter doesn't actually ask others to join his camp, but simply points out that it is in response to Murtha's request for an endorsement...
...Moreover, the fantasy of a good war botched by bad management evades the reality that the troop levels in Iraq were a function of the politics of the war, rather than of some futuristic warfare theory. The chiefs of staff believed it would require closer to half a million troops to subdue Iraq. Yet they probably also knew that if Congress were presented with a realistic picture of the cost and commitment, it might balk at authorizing the war. That was the reason Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz jumped so aggressively down the throat of General Eric Shinseki when...
...scale of America's troop commitment in Iraq has always been a political question, answered in the context of the concern by the war's architects to avoid provoking a Vietnam-style domestic political backlash sabotaging the mission...
...Administration prides itself on message discipline; straying of any kind is usually punished: Adviser Larry Lindsey was fired in 2002 after telling papers that the Iraq war could cost $200 billion; Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki was publicly chastised for not backing up White House estimates on troop levels. But Snow's ad-libbing is tolerated, even encouraged. How does he pull it off? It's not just that he is as quick to retract and apologize as he is to--as he has said--"step in it." It's also because the Snow Show, Administration officials believe...
...While Rip It Up includes images from U.S. military operations, it chiefly shows Australians on operations and in their barracks-and includes the image of the soldier aiming at a crouching man in Arab dress. Another video, 3 Troop, shows images of a soldier apparently practicing quick-draw techniques with his pistol; the sequence ends with him pointing the gun directly at the camera. While evidence of lax weapons-handling practices emerged at the current military inquiry into Kovco's death, questions remain over whether the commission conducting the inquiry was aware of all relevant soldier-made videos. As well...