CNN.com - Audit: U.S. lost track of $9 billion in Iraq funds - Jan 30, 2005

CNN.com - Audit: U.S. lost track of $9 billion in Iraq funds - Jan 30, 2005: "Audit: U.S. lost track of $9 billion in Iraq funds
Pentagon, Bremer dispute inspector general's report "

Death and elections in Iraq

On the same day that Condoleezza Rice was confirmed by the Senate and sworn in as Secretary of State, 37 U.S. soldiers lost their lives in the deadliest day of the war in Iraq.

The violence escalates every day, every hour, every minute. On Thursday, 19 Iraqis and a U.S. Marine were killed in fights with opponents who are blowing up buildings slated to be used as polling places in the Iraqi elections on Sunday.

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The voters ratified his Iraq policy, Bush says

"WASHINGTON President George W. Bush has said that his re-election in November ratified the correctness of his approach in Iraq and provided an 'accountability moment' for those behind flawed judgments regarding the war there."
(more; Click Here--->)The voters ratified his Iraq policy, Bush says

If only it were true, Condoleezza (HamptonRoads.com/Pilot Online)

If only it were true, Condoleezza (HamptonRoads.com/Pilot Online): "January 22, 2005

During her testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this week, Condoleezza Rice was grilled about when U.S. troops can come home from Iraq.
The president�s nominee for secretary of state, hewing closely to administration talking points, said America's 150,000 troops can return home when enough Iraqis are trained to take their place.
So how many Iraqis are ready for the job? No less a conservative authority than The Economist, the respected British magazine, put the number at 10,000 in a report this week. Other reports have put the number much lower.
Rice, who's supposed to know, pegged it closer to 120,000.
In other words, 30,000 more to go.
But if that's true, then why are so many of our troops still there? If we have made so much progress in building an Iraqi army, shouldn't we now be talking about a timetable for bringing our troops home? "

Duh?

BBC NEWS | Americas | Fallout from WMD search failure

Click Here: "The White House has now officially acknowledged what the Washington Post first reported and what many probably assumed was the case anyway - the US search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is over, at least in any meaningful sense. "

VOA News - US Ends Search for Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq

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