did the election on november 7th do this?

did our vote and our voices FINALLY get some action? is that all it took? why couldn't they have started this study LONG ago? better yet, WHY THE F**K DID WE ILLEGALLY INVADE IRAQ ANY F**KING WAY?

why did 2,844 of our men and women have to die in iraq? WHY?

Pentagon to reevaluate Iraq strategy, goals

Gen. Pace suggests less ambitious goals than Bush administration
By Ann Scott Tyson
The Washington Post
Updated: 12:25 a.m. ET Nov 11, 2006

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is conducting a major review of the military's Iraq strategy to determine "what's going wrong and should be changed" to attain U.S. objectives in the war-torn country, the nation's top general said yesterday.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, initiated the review this fall after starkly deteriorating security in Baghdad led commanders there to rule out any significant cut in the level of U.S. troops in Iraq -- now at about 145,000 -- according to senior defense officials and sources.
Pace said he is working with Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the top U.S. commander in Iraq, and Army Gen. John P. Abizaid, who as head of Central Command oversees the U.S. military in the Middle East, on recommendations for how to improve Iraq strategy.
Iraq at a crossroadsThe military's growing view is that Iraq is at a crossroads, spurred largely by intensified sectarian fighting and mounting U.S. casualties on the ground. Pace's review coincides with political pressure in Washington to find alternatives to the current Iraq policy, heightened by this week's election and the Democratic takeover of Congress.........

........Still, sources said that Pace's review marks a more fundamental and open-ended look for possible solutions in Iraq than the military has undertaken to date, growing out of a realization that Iraq could descend into chaos and that the current strategy is inadequate.
"The collapse of the strategy in Baghdad . . . caused a very deep introspection by the military," said a source connected to the Pentagon, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the topic............

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