How remarkable, refreshing and unexpected it was to read in Brian Kelly's Editor's Note on Iraq's surge that our beleaguered president may have been right all along ["Journalism Critics Wanted," August 18-25].
Better still that President Bush "had the
And now your daily dose of Joe Biden’s wit and wisdom.
Biden on Meet the Press, April 29, 2007: “The threat [Saddam Hussein] presented was that, if Saddam was left unfettered, which I said during that period, for the next five years with sanctions
St Paul, Minnesota - Republican presidential nominee John McCain's choice of the obscure Alaska governor as his running mate
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. combat troops could be pulled out of Baghdad within 10 months because of declining violence in the Iraqi capital, General David Petraeus, U.S. commander in Iraq, said in an interview published on Thursday.
Patriotism and "Country First" have become the theme for John McCain's campaign. Several speakers, including the Republican nominee himself, John McCain, touted the success of the surge in Iraq at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul,
By Herbert Docena MANILA - Three weeks ago, the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) stood on the verge of signing a breakthrough agreement that could have moved b...
1. Kim Jong-il, "Dear Leader" of North Korea since 1994. The son of the communist state's "Great Leader" Kim Il-sung has super-expensive tastes, with 17 palaces, and collections of hundreds of cars and around 20,000 video tapes. On one state visit to
You may have experienced the feeling on a steamy summer day: Nowhere in the universe could possibly be hotter than this.
Think again. Scientists have used high-tech equipment to generate temperatures in the billions of degrees - that's billions with a
GENEVA, Sept 5 (Reuters) - The United States risks a Srebrenica-style massacre if its forces in Iraq hand over responsibility for more than 3,000 exiled opposition Iranians to Iraqi authorities, an international lawyers' group has said.
The
Sept 5 (Reuters) - Following are the latest figures for soldiers and civilians killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003:
Two U.S. soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb attack in eastern Baghdad on Thursday, the U.S. military said.