President George W. Bush was asked about the anti-war ad campaign by moveon.org at a press conference this morning at the white house and called the ad "disgusting." Earlier an ad from Moveone.org had mocked General Petraeus as General "Betrayus."

Legislation to regulate U.S. troop deployment cycles in Iraq was blocked in the U.S. Senate late Wednesday by Republican opponents who argued the measure could undermine the war effort. The action was a blow to Senate Democrats who are seeking to challenge the Bush administration's Iraq war policy.

President George W Bush's administration has beat off the latest bid by Democrats to derail its Iraq strategy, as the Senate blocked a bid to limit numbers of troops ready for deployment.

An Afghan 6-year-old girl’s struggle to learn the alphabet in her war-torn nation and Iraq war - a massacre of civilians in the town of Haditha – two films are. Political and social stories again take center stage at the San Sebastian film festival - the oldest and most prestigious in the Spanish-speaking world - which kicks off on Thursday evening.

France doesn’t take orders from Washington, but no longer has a policy of "permanent anti-Americanism” as under Jacques Chirac, the French foreign minister said Wednesday.

Democratic congressional leaders made new appeals Monday for minority Republicans to abandon President Bush's military strategy in Iraq. One of the president's harshest critics in the House of Representatives shed some more light on his party's legislative approach in coming weeks, as the Senate began consideration of defense legislation and expected Iraq-related amendments.

Dozens of people have been arrested by police after a demonstration against the Iraq war in Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, U.S. President George W. Bush again warned that a quick withdrawal from Iraq would damage U.S. national security.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says American troops are likely to remain in Iraq for the long term, although their numbers will decline and their mission will change. VOA White House Correspondent Paula Wolfson reports, Gates defended President Bush's war strategy during a series of interviews on American television.

Alan Greenspan belongs to the Club of Emasculated Moderate Elites who enabled corporate theocrats to destroy the American Dream at home and annihilate our moral authority abroad. A prerequisite for membership is to first allow crazy ideologues to exploit their prestige and later disown the disastrous policies their reputations facilitated. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell is a charter member of this club and a pathetic figure who criticizes the Bush Administration about Iraq when it no longer matters.

U.S. Senate Democratic leaders are planning to hold votes next week on a series of measures aimed at changing the course of the Iraq war. Congressional Democrats are rejecting President Bush's plan for a gradual troop pullback from Iraq as too little too late.

Liberal scumbags are condeming Gen. David Petraeus before he even testifies today on the progress in Iraq, in an ad paid for by a liberal advocacy organization, known as code pink. That group? MoveOn.org (and no I won’t dignify them with a link). On the CNN ticker it states that:

A key U.S. report on Iraq paints a bleak picture of military and political progress there, despite the addition of 30,000 U.S. troops in recent months.