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As the debate in the United States is still raging on the Iraq War – and as many believe that the last legislative elections were a message from the American public to change the course in that conflict – the question remains, how. American politicians and their academic and activist advisors are rushing in all directions to search for that magic answer with most of the debaters parroting basically two main theses advanced by very few authors. One militant doctrine – connecting the radical left and the isolationist right, to (ironically) the Jihadists around the world – calls for immediate...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Iraqi insurgents is falling and the days of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head of the al Qaeda-related militants, are numbered, the top U.S. commander in the Middle East said on Tuesday. Army Gen. John Abizaid, head of U.S. Central Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee he believed the emerging political process, including the Jan. 30 election, was helping to drive the number of militants down. Insurgent attacks on U.S. forces and particularly on Iraqi police and security forces have continued. On Monday a car bomber killed 125 people in Hilla, south of Baghdad...

Petraeus Ready for New Iraqi Security Mission By Sgt. 1st Class Doug Sample, USAAmerican Forces Press ServiceWASHINGTON, May 16, 2004 -- With Iraqi sovereignty less than two months away, the man who commanded the 101st Airborne Division the first year of the Iraq war is up for an enormous, new challenge. Army Maj. Gen. David H. Petraeus, who stepped down as commanding general of the Fort Campbell, Ky.-based division May 14, will be heading back to Iraq in the next few weeks to oversee training of Iraqi security personnel. In an interview on CNN's "Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer"...

Lewis: Ladies and gentlemen, I'm Congressman Jerry Lewis from California. It's my privilege to chair the Subcommittee on Defense Appropriations and we had the Secretary of Defense and his colleagues before us today. I think it will be a very productive hearing. I know you're more interested in his thoughts about the hearing than mine, so it's my pleasure to [give you] Don Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense. Mr. Secretary? Rumsfeld: Thank you. Glad to be here. Questions? Q: Mr. Secretary, [inaudible] attacks taking place over the last several days including the one which involved General Abizaid today. Is it really...

Stealth weapons vs. donkey carts Posted: November 25, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 David H. Hackworth Once again, "shock and awe" thundered across Iraq for two explosive weeks. Then the insurgents responded to our high-tech air and ground hammer with return fire from four donkey-drawn carts toting homemade rocket launchers that hit one of the most heavily defended zones in Baghdad. Which says it all about the nature of modern guerrilla warfare. The Have-Nots – the guerrillas – use whatever they have at hand, the simplest weapons and tactics, to go up against the Have-It-Alls. In Iraq, it has...