...on Limits Being Reached

Military action won't end insurgency, growing number of U.S. officers believe

"'I think the more accurate way to approach this right now is to concede that ... this insurgency is not going to be settled, the terrorists and the terrorism in Iraq is not going to be settled, through military options or military operations,' Brig. Gen. Donald Alston, the chief U.S. military spokesman in Iraq, said last week, in a comment that echoes what other senior officers say. 'It's going to be settled in the political process.'"

This is a sign of how rapidly the wheels are coming off in Iraq. American officers are now speaking directly to the press and contradicting the White House's Fantasyland narrative. This is something the military doesn't normally do.

Heck, under Commander Cuckoo Pants the men quoted in this article could not only be endangering their career, but exposing themselves to prosecution under Article 88 and 89 of the UCMJ.

Absurd? Possibly. But we live in a world where meth manufacture was prosecuted as WMD terrorism under the PATRIOT Act. Remember what they did to Valerie Plame. Fortunately an increasing number of articles like the one from Iraq show that people are getting fed up with them.