That is the word from USAF Gen. Richard Meyers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who told reporters earlier this week that the Pentagon had completed a poll of Iraqis to gauge the mood toward insurgents. A DOD press article, citing “department officials speaking on background,” says the mid-July poll of 1,200 Iraqis in cities from Baghdad to Irbil revealed that 94 percent say there is no excuse for attacks on Iraqi police forces. Some 97 percent cannot excuse attacks on civilians.
Unit commanders are being told to separate service members who can’t shave their cheeks and chin for medical reasons for more than a year, according to new guidance from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
