A first wave of additional U.S. troops will go into Iraq before the end of the month under President Bushâs new plan, a senior defense official said Tuesday.
Up to 20,000 troops will be put on alert and be prepared to deploy under the presidentâs plan, but the increase in forces on the ground will be gradual, said the official, who requested anonymity because the plans have not yet been announced.
The Man the Myth. John Solomon does his first ‘online chat’ at the Washington Post website tomorrow at 11 AM.
Today’s Must Read: The Washington Post on how Bush got the generals to follow his New Way Forward.
So where does Commander in Chief wannabe Rudy Giuliani stand on the “surge”?
He won’t say.
Former Corporation for Public Broadcasting Chair Ken Tomlinson — betting man and liberal bias hound — withdraws his nomination to chair the Broadcasting Board of Governors.
And yet another. Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT) heads to K Street.
Curious to see what “authentic conservative” Mitt Romney looked and sounded like in real time back when he was a liberal?
We’ve got some video of Romney in 1994, forcefully declaring his support for abortion rights and distancing himself from Ronald Reagan.
Sit back and view it here.
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has called for a delay in the executions of Saddam’s two co-defendents.
The BBC is reporting that “as president, Mr Talabani has no power to annul or delay the executions.”
That’s not my understanding, though.
In the lead up to Saddam’s execution, Maliki had to come up with a workaround because Talabani, an opponent of capital punishment in general, wouldn’t authorize it. The two eventually compromised. And Talabani wrote Maliki a letter — of questionable constitutional significance — saying he had no objection to the execution proceeding, which of course it did.
Gen. William ‘Our Strategic Enemy is Satan’ Boykin gets bounced at the Pentagon.
We’re sitting here listening to an interview with Sen. McCain. And he’s just made the argument that if the message of the 2006 election were really to wind up our involvement in Iraq, then Joe Lieberman wouldn’t have been reelected in Connecticut. Now, I know Lieberman’s a pretty touchy topic. But even in the most generous interpretation, didn’t Lieberman run his whole general election campaign asking Connecticut voters to look beyond his position on Iraq which most of them disagreed with?
Late Update: As a number of readers have noted, in the general election, Sen. Lieberman was actually talking about ending the war in Iraq, just not in perhaps as precipitous a way as he claimed Ned Lamont would do. He certainly wasn’t talking about an open-ended commitment or an escalation. Here’s one of Joe’s ad for an example.