DOD announces V Corps units will return to Iraq as early as April

[MADem]

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=27142
...V Corps headquarters and six of its major commands will return to Iraq sometime between April 2005 and January 2006, according to a Department of Defense announcement Friday....

...V Corps is still led by Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who served as the top commander in Iraq until he was replaced by Gen. George Casey in July 2004.

It’s unclear if Sanchez will be put in the awkward position of returning to Iraq in a more junior role. Tours for corps commanders are typically two years, but are often extended to twice that.

Under the shadow of the Abu Ghraib scandal, Pentagon officials are so far mum on whether Sanchez will be offered another assignment — requiring another round of confirmation hearings before the Senate — or retire.
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Wonder how they are going to handle this: let/make him go back to Iraq, promote him, or tell him eat it or go home...?

[UL_Approved]

1. Eternal war

I sure feel sorry for all of these people. They get used time and time again. Not the country they were raised to defend anymore.

[Retired AF Dem]

2. I wonder if V Corps will return to the states when they are

finished like what happened to 7 Corps after the first gulf war.

[NYC]

3. What happened to 7 Corps

after the first gulf war?

[Retired AF Dem]

5. 7 Corps was shipped out of Germany

to spearhead the attack in Gulf War 1. When the war was over instead of sending them back to Germany they were sent to the states.

[leftchick]

4. Are folks in the military are aware of the plan for a Permanent Presence?

or do they beilieve they will be coming home sometime in 2006?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2281&ncid=742&e=5&u=/thenation/20050118/cm_thenation/132132


Though the media ignored Kerry's statement and failed to do any substantive follow-up research, his comments were well-grounded in reality. On the day of the debate the Christian Science Monitor spotlighted the findings of defense specialist John Pike, whose website, GlobalSecurity.org, located twelve "enduring bases" in Iraq, including satellite photos and names. In March, the Chicago Tribune reported that US engineers were constructing fourteen such long-term encampments--the number Kerry referred to. The New York Times previously placed the number at four.


While the exact figure may change, suspicions of undisclosed US imperial plans--exemplified by permanent military bases--rightfully linger. Before the war, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz suggested moving US troops stationed in Saudi Arabia into Iraq. In October, a survey by the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes found that two-thirds of respondents disapproved of a permanent military presence, even though more than half thought the US would build the bases anyway.


Now comes a report in the New York Sun by Eli Lake revealing that the Pentagon (news - web sites) is building a permanent military communications system in Iraq, a necessary foundation for any lasting troop presence. The new network will comprise twelve communications towers throughout Iraq, linking Camp Victory in Baghdad to other existing (and future) bases across the country, eventually connecting with US bases in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Afghanistan (news - web sites).


"People need to get realistic and think in terms of our presence being in Iraq for a generation or until democratic stability in the region is reached," Dewey Clarridge, the CIA (news - web sites)'s former chief of Arab operations (and Iran-contra point man), told the Sun.

[Wright Patman]

6. "Realistic"?

Since when is anything based on reality in this administration?

If one were to be realistic, one would realize that there has never been an "enduring" empire bringing "democratic stability" (what an oxymoronic juxtaposition of words there) when said empire is the world's largest debtor and most out-of-control rogue nation.

[saigon68]

7. "BRING EM ON" shouted the AWOL CHIMPANZEE

"All you fools who pay taxes OPEN YOUR POCKETS", he continued.

War without end people.