Pentagon defends war strategy in face of Sanchez attack

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Pentagon's public affairs chief resigns
The Pentagon public affairs chief has resigned, telling his staff on Monday that he would be leaving around the end of the month, a Pentagon spokesman said. Dorrance Smith, assistant secretary of defence for public affairs, was appointed to the post in January 2006 amid controversy over a newspaper column he wrote accusing US television news networks of aiding Al-Qaeda by airing videotape from Dubai-based Al-Jazeera television. "Dorrance Smith has indicated to his staff today that he plans to go back into the private sector, that he has largely accomplished what the secretary has asked him to do," said Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman. Smith, a former ABC television producer and media adviser to Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, may continue to work for the Pentagon in an advisory capacity of some kind, he said. Smith will be leaving his post, which oversees a sprawling military public affairs bureaucracy that employs thousands of people, "around the end of the month," Whitman said.

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Washington (AFP) Oct 15, 2007
The Pentagon said Monday its commanders were "comfortable" with the US military strategy in Iraq despite a former top commander's blistering attack on the conduct of the war.

Retired lieutenant general Ricardo Sanchez, whose tenure was marked by a spreading Sunni insurgency and the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, blamed "incompetent" leadership at the national level for creating "a nightmare with no end in sight."

Sanchez, who spoke Friday at a conference of military reporters and editors, said the current White House strategy in Iraq will not achieve victory.

"I suppose everybody has to deal with the things that haunt them in their own way, but the department is focused on what is required for success in Iraq, and to bring stability to the region and to fight terrorists worldwide," Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said.

He said US commanders in Iraq "believe that good progress is being made, and are comfortable with the strategy, and the direction in which we are pursuing our efforts in Iraq."

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Washington (UPI) Oct 10, 2007
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has promised to cut the British troop presence in Iraq by more than half -- leaving just 2,500 there by the middle of next year. During a recent visit to the country, Brown said that within two months the transfer of power to Iraqi forces in Basra would be complete.

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