In an attempt to prove that the presence of U.S. forces in Iraq is justifiable, Bush said: "Our troops are seeing this progress that is being made on the ground. And as they take the initiative from the enemy, they have a question: "Will their elected leaders in Washington pull the rug out from under them just as they're gaining momentum and changing the dynamic on the ground in Iraq?" In the meantime, America continues to lose its citizens in Iraq. The latest news came today from a California-based family that lost its second son in the war-torn country

One of 14 U.S. soldiers killed in a Black Hawk helicopter crash was the second son of a California family killed in Iraq, friends said.

The United States is planning to list Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, an elite military force of the Islamic Republic of Iran, as a terror group. If put into effect, the plan will jeopardize operations of any foreign company involved in economic cooperation with Iran – the Guards’ influence extends well beyond the military into business and politics. All in all, the U.S. Marine Corps could be also blacklisted as an institution linked to terrorism if the same logic is applicable to the case

Ninety-nine U.S. soldiers on active duty killed themselves last year, the highest rate of suicide in the Army in 26 years, a military report said. One out of four soldiers who committed suicide did so while serving in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Under any norms of international law, culpability for crimes committed is a fundamental precept. In the case of Iraq, the worst crimes in the book have been committed – mass murder, war crimes, wanton vandalism, state terrorism, targeting civilian structures with military hardware, rape, child murder, torture and the wholesale destruction of a state. But who is guilty for these crimes and who even raises the issue nowadays?

George W. Bush finally stated that the strategy of his administration in Iraq had brought little success. However, the US president added that he was not going to change the current strategy before September of the current year, when the Pentagon releases a new report on Iraq. To crown it all, Bush said that the American society and himself were tired of the war in Iraq