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U.S. Army troops in 2006 in Kunar province, Afghanistan.
General Stanley A. McChrystalWall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan recently opined how strange it is that General Stanley McChrystal, our top commander in Afghanistan, has not been asked to testify before Congress. Writes Noonan:
Before the surge in Iraq, we had the Petraeus hearings, which were nothing if not informative, and helped form consensus. Two generations earlier, we had the Fulbright hear
Good news from the 3rd battalion, 24th Marine Corps regiment based in Bridgeton: The 1,500-man ensemble is shipping out of Iraq, and, as Lt. Col. Shane Tomko puts it, "They're all in one piece."The U.S. Army will keep some troops in Iraq until 2011, but the 3/24 was the last Marine unit to deploy to the Middle East last September. Some of the 3/24 has already touched down at Camp Pendleton in San Diego, California. Everyone else -- but for some sent to Afghanistan -- will be stateside by
