Iraq
One the one hand, the Washington Post reports, we have the Marines and Army saying that the 30,000 troop surge "has put unsustainable levels of stress on U.S. ground forces and has put their
readiness to fight other conflicts at the lowest level in years" while on the other hand McClatchy reports that the 100,000's of Iraq troops that we've been told have been trained and are "standing up"... well, not so much against Sadr's militia in Basra and other cities throughout Iraq; giving the militia new found confidence in their abilities to affect the political process in Iraq and elsewhere as Great Britain announced that they are not going to pull 1500 of their 4000 troops out of their post in Basra as a reaction to the recent fighting.
Senator Joe Biden, a pretty straight shooter himself, summed it up best via McClatchy: "Biden said that the Iraqi offensive may indeed have been 'a defining moment,' but not in the way Bush intended. 'The president may be half-right,' he said."
Senator Joe Biden, a pretty straight shooter himself, summed it up best via McClatchy: "Biden said that the Iraqi offensive may indeed have been 'a defining moment,' but not in the way Bush intended. 'The president may be half-right,' he said."
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