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Sen. John McCain visited a Baghdad market Sunday and later told reporters the American people were not getting the full story on what he said were improving security conditions in the war-ravaged capital.

Lt. Gen. David Petraeus, President Bush's choice to lead coalition ground forces in Iraq, helped write the book on fighting the enemy he'll face there; the U.S. Army's counterinsurgency manual to be specific.

AFP - The United Nations has dropped independent expert monitors of alleged human rights abuses in Cuba and Belarus, as part of a deal on new rules for the UN Human Rights council, officials said.

The fourth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War dominates the news now; it's an obvious milestone. Less obvious -- but perhaps more telling -- is that, over the weekend, Iraq passed the Civil War as the second longest in our history. Only in Vietnam were Americans in conflict longer -- more than eight