“High Time” To Move Marines To Afghanistan
01.01.2009 at 10:03pm
“High Time” To Move Marines To Afghanistan – Cami McCormick, CBS News
The Commandant of the US Marine Corps says it’s “high time” his troops leave Iraq and take their battle skills to Afghanistan. “We are a fighting machine,” Gen. James Conway tells CBS News, and the fight is now in Afghanistan…
Their role in Iraq, he says, has been reduced to nation building…
“That’s not what we do,” Conway told Marines in Afghanistan. “Where there’s a fight, that’s where the Marine Corps is needed.”
More at CBS News.
