Turkish border attacks into Iraq spark fears of wider conflict

Turkish forces shelled Kurdish rebel positions across the border in northern Iraq, Iraqi Kurd officials reported Friday, heightening fears that the fighting could flare into a larger conflict and draw in the US.

the sort of thing "nobody" could have predicted. ha!


Admiral tapped to be next Joint Chiefs chair

The Bush administration sidelined Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on Friday, announcing plans to replace him as the nation's top military officer rather than reappoint him and risk a Senate confirmation struggle focusing on the Iraq War.

politics intrudes into the "nonpolitical."


For serious poets, the lines form here
it's for the money...

Bush wins Polish nod for missile defense

President Bush pressed his plan for a proposed European anti-missile defense on Friday with the president of Poland and won his strong support for installing interceptors on Polish soil.

looks like bush ain't putin's poodle no more!