Pentagon sets goals to hit before end of Bush term

Source: Reuters

Pentagon sets goals to hit before end of Bush term

Mon Aug 20, 2007 4:04pm ET144

By Kristin Roberts

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon has set 25 goals to meet by the end of the Bush administration, including implementation of a long-term plan for detaining terrorism suspects, according to a memo obtained by Reuters.

Only one of the initiatives outlined in the August 9 memo directly references Iraq, but many reflect weaknesses in military capabilities revealed by nearly six years of war there and in Afghanistan.

Among the initiatives, defense intelligence is ordered to quickly improve its ability to track and locate "high value targets" -- language used by military and intelligence officials for top al Qaeda suspects.

The military is ordered to expand its Special Operations Forces, the covert units conducting counter-terrorism operations, and to support an agency seeking technologies to defeat improvised explosive devices, the roadside bombs that have proven deadly to troops in Iraq....

Read more: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2007-08-20T200431Z_01_KIM072237_RTRUKOC_0_US-USA-PENTAGON-GOALS.xml

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This last year Rush to lock in all the "gains" the RW has made over the last 7 is going to be the most dangerous year of all, I think.

and an overwhelming majority in the house and the Senate to reveres and destroy many of these illegal acts.

One can only hope.

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these "Goals" actually are? One can only guess.

...or someone here might find a copy of that memo if we're lucky.