Soft Focus

Iraq options focus on reducing U.S. role - 20 Aug 2007 at 4:42pm - WASHINGTON -- U.S. military officials considering Iraq strategy options appear to be focusing on reducing the U.S. combat role in 2008 while increasing training of Iraqi forces, a senior military official told The Associated Press on Monday.

Why hasn't training been the focus for the last year, or two, or three?

Leahy threatens Bush aides with contempt - 20 Aug 2007 at 4:49pm - WASHINGTON -- A top Senate Democrat on Monday threatened to hold members of the Bush administration in contempt for not producing subpoenaed information about the legal justification for President Bush's secretive eavesdropping program.