Powell Cautions Kennedy on Iraq Remarks
Secretary of State Colin Powell cautioned Sen. Edward M. Kennedy to be more careful in criticizing the war in Iraq after the Massachusetts Democrat called the conflict "George Bush's Vietnam."Kennedy "should be a little more restrained and careful in his comments because we are at war," Powell said Tuesday on Fox News Radio's "Tony Snow Show."
Door now being opened to sending in more troops
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, long an advocate for keeping a lid on the number of American troops in Iraq, opened the door Tuesday to boosting U.S. forces there as a wave of unprecedented postwar violence gripped the desert nation.
U.S. Vows to Crush Shiite Militia While Fighting Sunni Insurgents
American-led international troops in Iraq were locked today in the fiercest fighting since the fall of Saddam Hussein a year ago, waging a two-front war against Sunni Muslim insurgents west of Baghdad and a ferocious and fast-spreading Shiite uprising in the south and center of the country.The American military confirmed today that 12 American marines had died on Tuesday in a seven-hour assault by gunmen on an American base in the Sunni-dominated city of Ramadi, 70 miles west of the capital.
declaring the war over last year showed a cold-war mentality of a "war" as being a conflict between two nations. we are clearly still "at war" as powell even admits. the was was not over just because it was declared as such. the war, justified by false pretenses, is clearly still going on...how and when will it end... will the US simply leave and let anarchy reign...or will the US stay put as more and more people are killed. neither are particularly attractive options. remember who put us in this position and that we are only there on false pretenses...