McCain-Why Should Our Troops Die For People Who CUT AND RUN?

We all know that McCain is happy to leave our troops in Iraq for the next 100 years to secure the "FREEDOM" of the Iraqi people. We also know the McSame-McBush doctrine in Iraq. When their troops stand up, ours will stand down. Well, at every opportunity, instead of standing up, the Iraqi troops are STANDING DOWN. So please Mr. McWar, explain to us here in America why our troops should continue to die for a people unwilling to stand up and fight for themselves?

Joao Silva for The New York Times

Iraqi soldiers outside a U.S. patrol base after their desertion.

By MICHAEL R. GORDON

Published: April 16, 2008

BAGHDAD — A company of Iraqi soldiers abandoned their positions on Tuesday night in Sadr City, defying American soldiers who implored them to hold the line against Shiite militias.

Desertions in Sadr City

Joao Silva for The New York Times

Iraqi soldiers on Tuesday after abandoning their posts on a joint mission with American troops in the Sadr City area of Baghdad. More Photos »

The retreat left a crucial stretch of road on the front lines undefended for hours and led to a tense series of exchanges between American soldiers and about 50 Iraqi troops who were fleeing.

Capt. Logan Veath, a company commander in the 25th Infantry Division, pleaded with the Iraqi major who was leading his troops away from the Sadr City fight, urging him to return to the front.

“If you turn around and go back up the street those soldiers will follow you,” Captain Veath said. “If you tuck tail and cowardly run away they will follow up that way, too.”

Captain Veath’s pleas failed, and senior American and Iraqi commanders mounted an urgent effort to regain the lost ground. An elite Iraqi unit was rushed in and with the support of the Americans began to fight its way north.

3 US Troops Killed, 31 Injured in McCain's 100 Year Iraq War

As protestors in France Extinquish the Olympic Torch in the name of freeing Tibet, there is breaking news on John McCain's 100 Year Iraq War front...3 US Troops were killed, and 31 more injured IN THE GREEN ZONE. So far, McCain's camp has been silent on these recent death, and the SIGNIFICANT uptick in violence as the surge begins to fail.

US soldiers killed in Green Zone

Mortars and rockets fired by insurgents frequently hit the Green Zone Three US service personnel have been killed and 31 wounded by rocket attacks on the Green Zone and a base elsewhere in Baghdad, the US military has said. The rocket attack at 1530 (1230 GMT) on the Green Zone, which houses government offices and foreign embassies, killed two personnel and wounded at least 17. A separate attack at the same time on a forward operating base in the Rustamiya district killed one and injured 14. The attacks came after fighting between US and Iraqi forces and a Shia militia. Twenty-two people were killed and more than 50 others injured in the clashes in the capital's eastern district of Sadr City, a stronghold of the Mehdi Army. The militia's leader, radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr, has called for a mass demonstration in three days' time against the US military presence.