Today's News

Iraq's Bitter North Spencer Ackerman - The Guardian-UK - May 15th, 2007 Sectarian strife in Baghdad commands the lion's share of press coverage, but there are even more complicated tensions in the Kurdish north ...more	Controversy Follows Another Suspicious US Attorney Firing Editorial - The Kansas City Star - May 15th, 2007 The Missouri replacement fuels contentions that the U.S. attorney firings were engineered to affect 2006 elections in battleground states ...more
Bush's Iraq Policy Places U.S. Troops in Impossible Position Cynthia Tucker - UExpress - May 15th, 2007 Our troops are in the crossfire of a civil war, in urban combat where insurgents fire from civilian quarters and tours of duty grow longer ...more	Iraq's September Progress Report: The Fix is Already In Marc McDonald - Beggars-Choosers - May 15th, 2007 There is no way on earth that Petraeus is going to declare that the military's surge has failed, no matter what the circumstances in September ...more
Tony Blair's Legacy Lies in the Baghdad Morgue Johann Hari - The Independent-UK - May 15th, 2007 In Baghdad's morgue, they separate out Shia and Sunni bodies. It's easy to do: the Shia have been beheaded, and the Sunnis have been tortured ...more	Hagel and Bloomberg, Bloomberg and Hagel in 08...Maybe John Nichols - The Nation - May 15th, 2007 Hagel really wants to be in the White House. And Bloomberg, a billionaire who can self-finance a national campaign, may be holding the ticket ...more