Like this:

1.  Nice if it happens:

“Obama puts brake on Afghan surge

The Pentagon was set to announce the deployment of 17,000 extra soldiers and marines last week but Robert Gates, the defence secretary, postponed the decision after questions from Obama.
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I can see another Vietnam coming.
No guts to commit to victory
No guts to get out.

Typical Democratic administration.“

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5683681.ece

2.  “
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David Miliband is criticised by a high-powered Commons committee today over claims that he “washed his hands” of alleged sexual abuse of Iraqi women at the British embassy in Baghdad.
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An Iraqi female cleaner, backed by witness statements from two local cooks and a Canadian lawyer working at the embassy on behalf of the Department for International Development, came forward in June 2007 to say she had been asked to sleep with one of the KBR men in exchange for double pay. There were also allegations of some KBR staff “taking turns with female employees” and of threats of violence to anyone who tried to speak out.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/coverup-in-iraq-shooting-the-messenger-1604040.html

3.  $4.7 billion?  27,000 people?  All for propaganda to mislead America?  You’ve got be kidding – Congress has approved none of these funds:

“As it fights two wars, the Pentagon is steadily and dramatically increasing the money it spends to win what it calls “the human terrain” of world public opinion. In the process, it is raising concerns of spreading propaganda at home in violation of federal law.

An Associated Press investigation found that over the past five years, the money the military spends on winning hearts and minds at home and abroad has grown by 63 percent, to at least $4.7 billion this year, according to Defense Department budgets and other documents. That almost is as much as it spent on body armor for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2004 and 2006.

This year, the Pentagon will employ 27,000 people just for recruitment, advertising and public relations, almost as many as the total 30,000-person work force in the State Department.

…

Recruitment and advertising are the only two areas where Congress has authorized the military to influence the American public. Far more controversial is public affairs because of the prohibition on propaganda to the American public.

“It’s not up to the Pentagon to sell policy to the American people,” said Democratic Rep. Paul Hodes, who sponsored legislation in Congress last year to reinforce the ban.“

http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2009/02/marine_public_relations_020709w/

4.  And along the same lines:

“Much like in Vietnam, “civilian policymakers and soldiers alike have cracked down on independent reporting from the battlefield” when the news has been unflattering, Curley said. “Top commanders have told me that if I stood and the AP stood by its journalistic principles, the AP and I would be ruined.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/06/ap-ceo-bush-turned-milita_n_164812.html

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