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DANIELS FINDS HOOSIER SOLDIERS IN IRAQ IN GOOD SPIRITS: Gov. Mitch Daniels finished up a short, hot trip to Iraq on Tuesday after visiting hundreds of Indiana soldiers and reporting that security in the area is much improved from his last trip in 2006 (Kelly, Fort Wayne Journal Gazette). .jpg)
“I’m coming back … enormously impressed with the character, the sheer confidence and the professionalism of the entire American military, and of course I’m especially proud of the members of the Indiana National Guard,” he said. “I’ve seen hundreds of them in various places throughout Iraq, … just trying to bring a message of support and love from home.” About 3,400 members of the 76th Infantry Brigade are deployed to Iraq, including about 680 out of Fort Wayne’s 1st Battalion 293rd Infantry Regiment. The call-up is the largest for Indiana troops since World War II. Daniels said he was in Kuwait on Saturday and Sunday and entered Iraq on Monday. He visited several spots, including Camp Victory in Baghdad, Camp Anaconda – where many of the 76th soldiers are – in Balad and Camp Speicher in Tikrit. He said the morale of the Guardsmen from Indiana was high, though he conceded they have been there for only seven or eight weeks out of a yearlong deployment. He hearkened back to a 2006 visit, saying Baghdad is now cleaner, with more infrastructure, and the level of violence is on the downturn. He said the big talk in Iraq is a recent move by the Iraqi military to clean up Basra and Mosul on their own – without aid from coalition forces. He did say a mortar round was fired into Camp Anaconda while he was there, but it didn’t wake him up and no one was injured. “It’s a more orderly place,” Daniels said. Daniels, who was joined on the trip by Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons, told reporters that the trip to Iraq was the first by a governor in 2008 (Richmond Palladium-Item).
OIL REACHES $130: Crude oil prices are shooting further into record territory, breaking above $130 a barrel for the first time on persistent supply concerns and a weaker dollar (Associted Press). The July contract for light, sweet crude rose as high as $130.30 in electronic trade on the New York Mercantile Exchange late afternoon Wednesday in Singapore.
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