Bush has decided to leave a soldier behind. I covered it earlier today.
But this latest news should raise the hair on the back of your neck. Even the
mercs are leaving, not only Iraq, but Afghanistan. We're really in it now.
Manhattan security company Kroll has withdrawn its bodyguard teams from Iraq
and Afghanistan after it lost four workers in Iraq, its parent company said
Wednesday.Kroll
pulls security team out of Iraq (h/t)
Kroll withdrew its bodyguard teams from Iraq and Afghanistan after four workers
died in Iraq.
Bechtel is pulling out too.
Bechtel Corp. went to Iraq three years ago to help rebuild a nation torn
by war. Since then, 52 of its people have been killed and much of its work
sabotaged as Iraq dissolved into insurgency and sectarian violence.Now Bechtel is leaving.
(snip)
But Bechtel — which charged into Iraq with American “can-do” fervor
— found it tough to keep its engineers and workers alive, much less make
progress in piecing Iraq back together.
And if wonders never cease, Bob Casey shows how it's done. In an earlier post I asked if Democrats had the spine to get the job done. Add Casey to the short list.
“John Kerry is not only a great leader for the Democratic party and a great U.S. senator, but he's a patriot,” Casey said after a morning political rally in Allentown. “He said he botched a joke and I think that is the beginning and the end of it. He was talking about the president and I think he has every right to criticize this president.”
. . . Casey said that before Kerry's critics “talk and pontificate they should remember who served.”
“Mr. Bush didn't serve in combat,” Casey said, “(Vice President) Cheney didn't serve in combat.”
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