This is my pick!
Politico….Vice President Dick Cheney: How many politicians, in either party, would respond to a tough question about public disapproval of foreign policy by asking, “So what?”?
And how many would tell a senior senator to “go f***” himself,” as Cheney notoriously did to Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) in 2004? Proving his old-school […]

Will Obama do a better job than Bush?
NPR-The Middle East will likely be a major foreign policy priority for the administration of Barack Obama. His election has generated high expectations — some say too high — that he can restore the image of the United States in the Arab world and that changes in Mideast […]

Bush and company!
NYT-An unpublished 513-page federal history of the American-led reconstruction of Iraq depicts an effort crippled before the invasion by Pentagon planners who were hostile to the idea of rebuilding a foreign country, and then molded into a $100 billion failure by bureaucratic turf wars, spiraling violence and ignorance of the basic elements of […]

NPR-President Bush is making what is likely to be his “farewell” trip to Iraq before he leaves office next month. At a news conference in Baghdad, today, Bush defended the U.S.-led invasion.
He also applauded passage of an Iraqi-U.S. security pact that keeps American troops in Iraq for three more years.
A lot of people in Iraq […]

Agree or disagree?
NPR-Defense Secretary Robert Gates signaled a willingness Tuesday to forge ahead with two key priorities for the incoming Obama administration: accelerating the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and shutting down the Guantanamo Bay detention center.
As the only Republican Cabinet member asked to stay on by President-elect Barack Obama, Gates told reporters that military commanders […]

How much has Iraq hurt the economy?
Politico-I do not understand why some people are opposed to a $25 billion government bailout of the U.S. auto industry.
The price is cheap. That $25 billion represents less than three months of the cost of the Iraq war.
To put it another way: If Barack Obama would end the Iraq […]

Is it not ironic Obama ran as a dove to win the primary, yet put the hawks in charge in key positions ie Gates and Clinton?
Politico- Defense Secretary Robert Gates has agreed to stay on under President-elect Barack Obama, according to officials in both parties. Obama plans to announce a national-security team early next […]

What did we win in Iraq?

Is this not a Time-line plan Bush was against before he was for it?
NPR-…The final draft of the agreement, reached after months of negotiations, is designed to meet Iraqi concerns over its sovereignty and its security needs as it continues to grapple with a diminished but persistent insurgency.
It provides for the departure of U.S. forces […]

Is this the first test for Obama if he will stand up against the liberal wing of the party?
Politico-Arms control advocates and anti-war activists are ratcheting up pressure on President-elect Barack Obama to dump Defense Secretary Robert Gates and replace him with a more strident anti-war voice.
Nominating Gates to stay, “would be a violation of […]

How will the policy in Iraq CHANGE?
NPR-Iraqi officials said Wednesday they don’t expect Barack Obama to withdraw U.S. troops hastily from Iraq because he told them last summer that he wouldn’t make a decision without consulting them and U.S. commanders on the ground.
With violence down and the economy No. 1 on American voters’ minds, the […]

What will happen in Iraq?
AJC-The Bush administration’s hopes for sealing a security deal with Iraq while in office are fading as Iraqis demand changes to a draft text that some U.S. officials consider unacceptable.
“The window for any kind of discussions, negotiations is rapidly coming to a close,” State Department spokesman Robert Wood said Thursday.
Wood said […]

Does this ad help McCain?
FOX-YouTube’s Top Election Video Is Iraq Vet’s McCain Endorsement

Why does anyone think the Iraq war was worth 1 trillion and counting?
a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/27/what-we-could-have-spent_n_138410.html”>AP-When the Sunday morning political pundits began talking last year about the tab for the war in Iraq hitting $1 trillion, Rob Simpson sprang from his sofa in indignation.
“Why aren’t people outraged about this? Why aren’t we hearing about it?” Simpson said. […]

What happens if we have no deal in Iraq?
TH-American soldiers might stop patrolling the streets and head back to their barracks. Help to the Iraqi army could suddenly cease _ not to mention raids on al-Qaida fighters and Shiite extremists.
U.S. and Iraqi officials would scramble for options to salvage their mission here, in the waning, […]