Associated Press
- Iraq’s government spokesman is hopeful that U.S. combat forces could be out of the country by 2010.
Ali al-Dabbagh made the comments following a meeting in Baghdad on Monday between Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama, who arrived in Iraq earlier in the day.
The timeframe is similar to Obama’s proposal [...]
ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press
- Notwithstanding months of partisan wrangling in Congress over the Iraq war, the Senate Thursday handily confirmed Gen. David Petraeus as the top commander in the Middle East and Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno to replace Petraeus as the chief military officer in Iraq.
The Senate voted 95-2 in favor of Petraeus with Democratic [...]
ED O’KEEFE, ABC News
Retired Gen. Colin Powell insists he hasn’t yet decided who he’ll back in the 2008 presidential election.
“I’m looking at all three candidates,” Powell said in an exclusive interview with Diane Sawyer for Thursday’s “Good Morning America” on ABC, “I know them all very, very well. I consider myself a friend of each [...]
Sherrel Wheeler Stewart, BlackAmericaWeb.com
In the five years since the United States launched the Iraq war with a predawn strike on Baghdad on March 20, 2003, black enlistment in the armed services has dropped significantly, according to Department of Defense statistics. That decrease impacts the military and the black community, both observers and veterans say.
“There has [...]
