Supporting Our Troops?
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has finally gone too far. Confronted last week by a Guardsman who described soldiers rummaging through landfills for protective metal for their vehicles, Rumsfeld&#39;s cavalier
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A look at nations in the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq. At least 25 nations now support a U.S. contingent of nearly 132,000.
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President Bush faces widespread opposition to the troop buildup in Iraq, though he has gained support over the past month, an AP-Ipsos poll found. The president has nudged support for the troop increase to 35 percent from 26 percent in early January. Sixty-three percent of those surveyed still oppose the increase.
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Our position is: More US troops are needed to serve until the election, but Iraq must eventually handle its own security. The Pentagon&#39;s announcement that deployments are being extended for more than 10,000
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The "five Army brigade combat teams, a Marine expeditionary unit and two Marine battalions" designated for withdrawal from Iraq by July "represent a very significant force. They are the force, in fact, that have helped us substantially in achieving some of the recent gains that our troopers have...
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US military staff and their families believe the United States sent too few troops into Iraq and put too great a burden on inexperienced National Guard and reserve forces, even though they support George W. Bush's overall handling of Iraq, a poll showed.
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John Kerry returned a hero. The smears his political enemies are now flinging mark them -- not him -- as beneath contempt. The next time the nation gets into a war, why would any American with an interest in national service show up to fight?
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Some worry that not enough support exists to help US troops bear the psychological toll of having killed.
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From Tuesday's Globe and Mail OTTAWA AND TIRIN KOT, AFGHANISTAN - Prime Minister Stephen Harper goes recruiting today, hoping to convince combat-shy Europeans to reinforce Canada's embattled troops doing much ...Comment
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Cynthia Burks doesn't just talk about supporting her country's troops serving in Iraq.
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a Commons statement on proposals to deploy British troops in the American-controlled sector of Iraq. Following a weekend of intense speculation over Government plans to support US forces around Baghdad, Mr
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The Bush administration keeps telling us the war in Iraq is going well and that our all-volunteer army is doing a great job. But some troops are telling a different story.
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WASHINGTON - The US Army wants to know how a threatened plan to withhold $60 million a month in a billing dispute might affect Halliburton Co.&#39;s ability to support US troops in Iraq.
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Republican support for the Iraq war is slipping by the day. After four years of combat and more than 3,560 U.S. deaths, two Republican senators previously reluctant to challenge President Bush on the war announced they could no longer support the deployment of 157,000 troops and asked the president to begin bringing them home.
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Some 7,000 UK troops are currently serving in Iraq Prime Minister Tony Blair is expected to announce a timetable for the withdrawal of UK troops from Iraq.Comment
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Blog: Even before getting to the battlefield, high-tech upgrades for ground troops must maneuver through tough political terrain.
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John Kerry: ``The obligation of a commander in chief is to keep our country safe. In Iraq, George Bush has overextended our troops and now failed to secure 380 tons of deadly explosives.