WOW, double sirens. I thought that reserved for, like, the second coming or something.............
The Pentagon said Friday that U.S. forces in Iraq are ready for any escalation of violence there _ even as condemned former President Saddam Hussein waged an 11th-hour appeal in American courts to spare his life."U.S. forces in Iraq are obviously at a high state of alert anytime because of the environment that they operate in and because of the current security situation," Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman said.
U.S. forces will take into account "social dimensions that could potentially led to an increase in violence, which certainly would include carrying out the sentence of Saddam Hussein," Whitman said...
