The recommendation reflects the military?s new counterinsurgency doctrine, which puts a premium on sustained efforts to try to win over a wary population.
Republican insiders are deeply worried about the "Scooter" Libby verdict's political effect–especially when combined with the rash of other bad news that has erupted recently concerning the Iraq war.
It took four years to investigate and then 10 days for jurors to finally decide the fate of former Cheney Chief of Staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby. And when they did, they delivered a verdict that shook the White House–leading right to the vice president's office.
Vice President Cheney has become the most marginalized figure in the Bush administration. Even among many Republican loyalists, he has lost his already fading influence.
AP - The Pentagon has approved a request by the new U.S. commander in Iraq for an extra 2,200 military police to help deal with an anticipated increase in detainees during the Baghdad security crackdown, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday.
AP - A suicide attacker blew himself up in a cafe northeast of the capital Wednesday, killing 30 people as a wave of violence left 90 Iraqis dead throughout the country.
AP - House Democratic leaders intend to propose legislation requiring the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the fall of 2008, and even earlier if the Iraqi government fails to meet security and other goals, congressional officials said Wednesday night.
John Evander Couey could face the death penalty after being found guilty Wednesday of murdering 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, who was abducted two years ago from her home in Florida. The young girl had been raped before being buried alive in a garbage bag.
A former member of the U.S. Navy was arrested Wednesday in Phoenix, Arizona, on charges of providing material support to terrorists and espionage, the Department of Justice said.
Parents of an alleged teenage bank robbing duo said on national television this week they couldn't comprehend how their daughters could have, as police and surveillance tape suggest, giggled behind fashionable sunglasses as they robbed a Bank of America branch last week.