Don’t think this will make things better. Maybe some of you congress people could send your kids over there….whatta ya say??

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Two weeks before U.S. midterm elections, American officials unveiled a timeline Tuesday for Iraq’s Shiite-led government to take specific steps to calm the world’s most dangerous capital and said more U.S. troops might be needed to quell the bloodshed.

U.S. officials previously said they were satisfied with troop levels and had expected to make significant reductions by year’s end. But a surge in sectarian killings, which welled up this past summer, forced them to reconsider.

At a rare joint news conference
( Full transcript of the briefing here)with the American ambassador, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. George Casey, said additional U.S. troops could come from inside or outside Iraq to “improve basic services for the population of Baghdad.”

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Active Duty Troops Ask Congress to End War
Keith Olbermann talks to one of the Marines, Sgt. Liam Madden, who has made the decision to ask congress to withdraw troops from Iraq under whistle blower protection.