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So, if we can't win, why are young American soldiers dying in Iraq? What does that tell them when their leaders say we can't win? Full article at the link below.
""I think the more accurate way to approach this right now is to concede that ... this insurgency is not going to be settled, the terrorists and the terrorism in Iraq is not going to be settled, through military options or military operations," Brig. Gen. Donald Alston, chief U.S. military spokesman in Iraq, said last week. "It's going to be settled in the political process."
Gen. George W. Casey, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, expressed similar sentiments, calling the military's efforts "the Pillsbury Doughboy idea" — pressing the insurgency in one area only causes it to rise elsewhere.
"Like in Baghdad," Casey said during an interview with two newspaper reporters, including one from Knight Ridder, last week. "We push in Baghdad — they're down to about less than a car bomb a day in Baghdad over the last week — but in north-center (Iraq) ... they've gone up."
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/11881007.htm
""I think the more accurate way to approach this right now is to concede that ... this insurgency is not going to be settled, the terrorists and the terrorism in Iraq is not going to be settled, through military options or military operations," Brig. Gen. Donald Alston, chief U.S. military spokesman in Iraq, said last week. "It's going to be settled in the political process."
Gen. George W. Casey, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, expressed similar sentiments, calling the military's efforts "the Pillsbury Doughboy idea" — pressing the insurgency in one area only causes it to rise elsewhere.
"Like in Baghdad," Casey said during an interview with two newspaper reporters, including one from Knight Ridder, last week. "We push in Baghdad — they're down to about less than a car bomb a day in Baghdad over the last week — but in north-center (Iraq) ... they've gone up."
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/11881007.htm