The Army says no, but a graphic video and eyewitness testimony indicate that a U.S. tank killed two American soldiers. The mother of one soldier demands answers.
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OMAHA, Neb. — Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, fresh from an Iraq trip with Democrat Barack Obama, said the presidential candidates should focus on the war’s future and stop arguing over the success of last year’s troop surge.
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John McCain refers to Iraq as “the first major conflict since 9/11,” perhaps forgetting about that little imbroglio in Afghanistan. CBS continues its due diligence and edits the exchange from its broadcast.
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It really makes the Iraq debate easy for John McCain when he throws around words like “win” and “victory” and “prevail” and “success” without really defining what they mean. It is self-serving for McCain to begin all of his discussions about Iraq with the January 2007 “surge.” In doing so, he is airbrushing out the [...]