AP: President Bush is keeping the U.S. force strength in Iraq largely intact until the next president takes over, drawing rebukes from Democrats who want the war ended and a more sizable troop shift to troubled Afghanistan.
AP: John McCain says he’s not challenging Barack Obama’s patriotism in criticizing the Democrat’s call to pull out of Iraq, only his judgment.
AP: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is criticized Republican rival John McCain Tuesday at a VFW convention; for questioning his patriotism and his judgment on national security matters, especially on Iraq.
“This counter-insurgency was initiated to some degree by Col. McFarland in Anbar province, relatively on his own. And I visited with him in December of 2006.”
Sen. John McCain says U.S. troops could be ‘largely withdrawn’ from Iraq in two years. However, McCain says that would ultimately depend on conditions on the ground.
NYT: Senator John McCain’s trip to Iraq last March was a low-key affair: With a small retinue of reporters chasing him abroad, the NBC News anchor Brian Williams reported on Mr. McCain’s visit there from New York, including it in
Barack Obama wants the U.S. military to refocus on the conflict in Afghanistan by sending more troops there from Iraq. John McCain says Obama’s plan will jeopardize progress.
This week’s Washington Times’ piece: More than a dozen box office failures vilify the troops without a single counterperspective seeing the light of day. Yet one positive Iraq war film, “Brothers at War,” dares to tell the story of a
Reuters: Uday and his younger brother, Qusay, were both killed in a gunbattle with U.S. forces in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in 2003, a few months after the invasion of Iraq.
AP: President Bush on Monday signed a $162 billion war spending plan to pay for the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan until the next president takes office.
Notre Dame High School in Niles has set up 4,637 flags for members of the Armed Forces who have lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan.
On the day CBS News announces a big promotion for reporter Lara Logan, news reports swirl with tales of romantic turmoil during her time in Iraq. You can also watch the show LIVE Monday-Friday at 4PM Eastern.
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Republican presidential candidate John McCain is highlighting his early support of the troop surge in Iraq. McCain says the U.S. would not be seeing success in Iraq if rival Barack Obama, who opposed the surge, would have had his way.
CNN: According to the internal al Qaeda correspondence in the files, Iraqis have taken to, and effectively run, al Qaeda in Iraq. Foreign fighters’ roles seem mostly relegated to the canon fodder of suicide attacks.
AP: According to politico.com, President Bush’s former spokesman Scott McClellan says the White House was neither candid nor honest as the nation headed to war in Iraq.
Politico: Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that President Bush “veered terribly off course,†was not “open and forthright on Iraq,†and took a “permanent campaign approach†to
AP: President Bush urged Congress Thursday to pass a war funding bill that does not ‘tie the hands’ of U.S. commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Fox: Members of an anti-war group began gathering Friday with pink placards and banners outside of a controversial Marine Corps Recruiting Center, where Code Pink had promised to use witchcraft to rally against the Iraq war.
From the related AP link: Republican John McCain was forced to clarify his comments Friday suggesting the Iraq war involved U.S. reliance on foreign oil. He said he was talking about the first Gulf War and not the current conflict.
