The plan to turn over security to the Iraqis collided with the country?s ferocious unraveling, which took most of the president?s war council by surprise.
I can remember reading a couple of years ago an argument that the reason George W. Bush followed the recommendations of the so-called neoconservatives–in Afghanistan as well as Iraq–is that the neoconservatives had an analysis of and a plan of action for dealing with Islamofascist terrorists and their state sponsors and aiders and abettors; and that no one else did.
The runaway prosecutor in Durham, N.C., has been exposed for his dogged pursuit of the lacrosse players at Duke University. He has made a mess for himself.
AP - As enraged crowds protested the hanging of Saddam Hussein across Iraq's Sunni heartland Monday, government officials reported that 16,273 Iraqi civilians, soldiers and police died violent deaths in 2006, a figure larger than an independent Associated Press count for the year by more than 2,500.
AP - Ordinary Americans joined President Bush and other dignitaries to pay final respects to Gerald R. Ford as his flag-draped casket rested under the Capitol dome, before a last round of funeral services and burial near his old family home in Michigan.
U.S. officials reportedly tried to delay last week's execution of Saddam Hussein, fearing it would fuel perceptions the death of the former Iraqi dictator was more about Shiite retribution and less about justice. A member of the Iraqi parliament said that, at one point, a top U.S. official suggested a delay of two weeks, which Iraqi leaders rejected.