Washington Post
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 22 -- President Bush defended his ongoing military commitment in Iraq by linking the conflict there to the Vietnam War, arguing Wednesday that withdrawing U.S.troops would lead to widespread death and suffering as it did in Southeast Asia three decades ago...
Washington Post
Iraqi soldiers supported by U.S. helicopters on Sunday clashed with a gathering of insurgents hiding out amid date palm orchards near the southern holy city of Najaf, according to Iraqi officials...
The Times
America’s refusal to give Baghdad’s security forces sufficient guns and equipment has cost a great number of lives, the Iraqi Prime Minister said yesterday. Nouri al-Maliki said the insurgency had been bloodier and prolonged because Washington had refused to part with equipment...
Leon Satterfield
The Lincoln Journal Star
OK, I give up. What’s going on in Washington? Has it been taken over by people who’ve managed to make a pretty good living by being militant Christians...
The New York Times
Saddam Hussein’s half-brother and the head of his revolutionary court were executed before dawn on Monday, according to a lawyer for one of the hanged men and a former minister with close ties to Iraq’s Shiite-led government...
The Daily Star
As Iraqi refugees flood neighboring countries, the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) issued an international appeal
this week...
The Telegraph
Saddam Hussein's execution has inspired a gruesome cycle of revenge, with scores of Shia Muslims found hanged from lampposts in Baghdad...
Los Angeles Times
Some bipartisan commissions try to move public opinion on contentious national issues. Others try to help Congress find compromise solutions to thorny problems...