Contrary To Pentagon Claims, Gen. Casey Still Warning Against Troop Escalation In Iraq
From Think Progress -- posted by Amanda:
'On Dec. 23, an anonymous Defense Department official told the Los Angeles Times that top American military commanders in Iraq, including Gen. George Casey, had “decided to recommend a ’surge’ of fresh American combat forces.”
'But in an interview last Friday, Casey told reporters that he still has doubts about an President Bush’s troop escalation plan in Iraq. From today’s New York Times:
"The longer we in the U.S. forces continue to bear the main burden of Iraq’s security, it lengthens the time that the government of Iraq has to take the hard decisions about reconciliation and dealing with the militias. And . . . they can continue to blame us for all of Iraq’s problems, which are at base their problems. It’s always been my view that a heavy and sustained American military presence was not going to solve the problems in Iraq over the long term."
Casey was “scheduled to shift out of Iraq in the summer.” But that now may “happen in February or March.”'
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Well--he is speaking out.
Will he do anything else?
Will Congress?
Or will the soldiers just keep dying for the lie?