International:
Historic Summit
Kim Jong-Il welcomes South Korea's president Roh Moo-hyun to Pyongyang for second-ever summit.
Kim Jong-Il welcomes South Korea's president Roh Moo-hyun to Pyongyang for second-ever summit.
Israel says it bombed Syria, but why remains a mystery
Nearly a month after a mysterious Israeli military airstrike in Syria generated political aftershocks from Washington to North Korea, the Israeli government lifted its official veil of secrecy Tuesday. Read more
Nearly a month after a mysterious Israeli military airstrike in Syria generated political aftershocks from Washington to North Korea, the Israeli government lifted its official veil of secrecy Tuesday. Read more
Chiefs decry war in Pakistan
Pashtun tribal chiefs, who for centuries have held way in the Hindu Kush mountain range along the border with Afghanistan, say they are being thrust into an Iraq-style war between violent Islamists and the Pakistani army. Musharraf ally to lead military
Pashtun tribal chiefs, who for centuries have held way in the Hindu Kush mountain range along the border with Afghanistan, say they are being thrust into an Iraq-style war between violent Islamists and the Pakistani army. Musharraf ally to lead military
The Other War
“Afghanistan is currently suffering its most violent year since the 2001 U.S.-led intervention, according to an internal United Nations report that sharply contrasts with recent upbeat appraisals by President Bush and his Afghan counterpart, Hamid Karzai.”
Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced today that he was slashing the remaining British contingent in Iraq by nearly 20 percent. A beleaguered Iraqi leader said his own forces would be ready to take up the slack in the country's oil-rich southernmost province in two months.
Arguing it is unfair to continue to pass the cost of the war in Iraq to future generations, three senior House Democrats Tuesday offered a longshot plan to raise taxes to pay for the $150 billion bill for the war in 2008. Read more here...
Pending Home Sales Index Hits Record Low
An index that forecasts near-term home sales fell in August to a record low as would-be homebuyers had difficulty getting mortgages. Economists said the housing market's woes show no sign of improving soon. Details
In Other News…
Government Accountability Office report reveals “federal employees wasted at least $146 million over a one-year period in business or first-class airline tickets.”
A Washington Post-ABC News poll released today shows that almost seven in ten Americans "oppose fully funding President Bush's $190 billion request for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan....with 46 percent wanting it cut sharply or entirely."
Limbaugh Slams Dems for Falsely Targeting Him Conservative talk show host steps up his criticism of Democratic lawmakers, saying efforts by members of Congress to target him are merely diversions meant to distract supporters from their failed efforts to get out of Iraq.
The Senate voted 92-3 yesterday to "pass a defense policy bill authorizing another $150 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan." While the Senate policy bill authorizes the money to be spent, it does not guarantee it. "Bush will have to wait until Congress passes a separate appropriations bill before war funds are transferred to military coffers."
The Anti-Defamation League is calling on Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) to "reconsider and withdraw" his comment over the weekend that the Constitution established America as a "Christian nation."
In his opening statement today, Blackwater Chairman Erik Prince will tell the House Oversight Committee that his company and its employees are victims of a "rush to judgment" about a shootout in Baghdad last month. Though Prince says Blackwater employees "acted appropriately," the Iraqi government has concluded that they were "unprovoked" when they opened fire.
From The Right: David Limbaugh: At War with Being at War In his column "9/11 Is Over," he laments that "we've become 'The United States of Fighting Terrorism.' I will not vote for any candidate running on 9/11. We don't need another president of 9/11. We need a president for 9/12." Alrighty, then. Let's just declare the war over.
From the Left: Ex-White House Lawyer: Eavesdropping Program Was Illegal Pamela Hess of "A former top lawyer for the Bush administration said on Tuesday said that parts of President Bush's controversial eavesdropping program were illegal."
Quote Of The Day: “The American people weren’t just failed by a president, they were failed by much of Washington.” Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., during his Chicago address today at which he proposed setting a goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons.
(Sources: TownHall, TruthOut, AP, FOXNews, ThinkProgress, NewsMax, DrudgeReport, NYT, McClatchy, WashingtonTimes, SanFranciscoChronicle, CNN, MSNBC, PoliticalCartoons.com)
From the Left: Ex-White House Lawyer: Eavesdropping Program Was Illegal Pamela Hess of "A former top lawyer for the Bush administration said on Tuesday said that parts of President Bush's controversial eavesdropping program were illegal."
Quote Of The Day: “The American people weren’t just failed by a president, they were failed by much of Washington.” Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., during his Chicago address today at which he proposed setting a goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons.
(Sources: TownHall, TruthOut, AP, FOXNews, ThinkProgress, NewsMax, DrudgeReport, NYT, McClatchy, WashingtonTimes, SanFranciscoChronicle, CNN, MSNBC, PoliticalCartoons.com)
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