U.S. 'Lacks Moral Authority' In Iraq

by Pamela Hess
UPI Pentagon Correspondent
Baghdad (UPI) Oct 05, 2005

"I don't know if I have the moral authority to send troops into combat anymore," a senior American general recently told United Press International. He knows what his power means -- that on his word hundreds or thousands of young men would step into danger.

"I'm no longer sure I can look (a soldier or a Marine) in the eye and say: 'This is something worth dying for.'"