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Murtha: ‘There Is No Question’ The U.S. Military Is Turning Against The Iraq War

By ThinkProgress on Oct 29, 2006 at 11:45 am

Today on CBS’s Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer said, “We keep hearing from people who say the American military is turning against the war.” Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) responded, “There is no question about it.” Watch it:

[flv http://video.thinkprogress.org/2006/10/murth.320.240.flv]

Earlier this month, veterans advocacy group VoteVets.org released the first-ever poll of Iraq and Afghanistan vets. Some key findings:

– 63 percent of all Iraq and Afghanistan veterans believe the Army and Marine Corps are overextended at this time. 67 percent of Army and Marine veterans believe their forces are overextended.

– 53 percent of respondents said they “did not always know who the enemy was” when they were engaged in the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.

– 42 percent of the veterans said their equipment was below the military standard of being 90 percent operational. 35 percent said their Humvees and trucks were not up-armored when they arrived in-country.

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Yglesias

Iraq: Who Rules?

By Matthew Yglesias on Oct 29, 2006 at 10:40 am

The opening stories of today’s violence and conflict in Iraq are, naturally, sad and horrifying, but they’re also sort of old news. A newer development is closer to the end of the article, as you see the Iraqi government increasingly chafing at being treated as subcontractors for an American colonial administration.

At the end of the day, I think this is a major problem for all so-called “plans” for Iraq. At this point, things have simply gone too far for the U.S. government to really impose its will on any of the major Iraqi actors, call them insurgents, militias, the Iraqi government, or whatever else you like.

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