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War and the media: That is the subject of this evening's "Talking Points Memo." Millions of Americans have reacted to this video taken in Fallujah (search) where a young Marine shot a wounded insurgent inside a mosque. That Marine is now under investigation. But he is innocent, and that will be proven. Let's take it step by step. Last night, I had to make a decision whether to show you that video or not. I chose to do it and then provide context. In that way, you could decide about the controversy. You may remember I did not show the...

Subject says it all. I believe that there are pro's to the embedding process, but if so many reporters are practically praying for atrocities to be committed by US troops, or hoping the Iraq war will fail, I think it is a DANGER to the troops to send the reporters with them on their missions. As we have seen, a Marine is now being accused of a war crime for shooting an unarmed insurgent. However, it is pretty clear that the Marine was not aware of the fact that the man was injured, and given the fact that insurgents routinely...

Joining Vice President Dick Cheney’s motorcade in Green Bay, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel photographer Dale Guldan hoped to capture a unique image during an otherwise scripted campaign visit in September. Did he ever. Jumping on and off the press bus, Guldan says he took dozens of pictures at well-orchestrated photo opportunities. On the way to Milwaukee, however, former Green Bay Packers quarterback Bart Starr convinced Cheney to make an unscheduled stop in Glendale to visit local favorite Kopp’s Frozen Custard, according to New York Times reporter Rick Lyman. When Cheney ordered a decaf coffee and sat on a concrete ledge outside,...

Baghdad - Fears of a humanitarian crisis in Fallujah are groundless, Iraq's health minister said on Sunday, adding that only a small number of civilians appeared to have been wounded in the week-long battle. The minister, Alaeddin Abdul Sahib Adwan, admitted however that he was unable to obtain information about residents in the thick of the fighting for the rebel-held city that was launched by US and Iraqi forces last Monday. "The ministry of health is co-ordinating with the Iraqi military and the multinational forces in evacuating the civilian casualties, but so far the number has been very small," Adwan...

U.S. and Iraqi forces in southern Fallujah came under a burst of bullets and rockets fired by Iraqi resistance fighters Friday night in what commanders described as one of the fiercest battles since the offensive broke out on Monday night. The U.S. is facing tough resistance and starting to loose control over the city unlike previous claims that the U.S. military has managed to control about 80 percent of the city Since the Iraqi PM Iyad Allawi gave orders to start the offensive on Monday, U.S. forces said it has gained control of the city's northern half while driving insurgents...

I'm curious to know how many of you have seen the game "America's Army", and/or played it? I donwloaded it and it's absolutely fantastic! Great graphics, effects and realism.

Minister of foreign affairs Joschka Fischer was never treated this disrespectfully abroad: not only that his plane had to fly loops for a very long time. He also had to push his way through a crowd. In the end the Europeans missed the funeral service for Yassir Arafat. Cairo: According to data from western diplomats not a single European guest could participate in the central funeral service at the airport in Cairo, because guests from islamic countries were preferred by the supervisors. First many airplanes, among them the airplane of the german minister of foreign affairs, could not land because...

Well it is no surprise that 600 have been killed - if indeed that figure is accurate. The marines now are pushing out south of the main road. The insurgents are believed to be confined to a narrow corridor which runs about 2km south of that road. And the technique is literally to insert the ordinary marines - the grunts as they call themselves - wait until they draw fire and then hit back with everything they have got. So you see a fleeting glimpse of one of the militants in the back of a room or jumping across a...

Abidjan, Ivory Coast - French forces opened fire on Tuesday as thousands of angry loyalists massed outside an evacuation post for foreigners, witnesses said, and a hospital reported seven people killed and 200 wounded in a fourth day of chaotic violence pitting France against its former prize colony. The bloodletting, overshadowing the launch of an African peace mission here, erupted at a one-time luxury hotel that French forces have commandeered as an rallying post for 1 300 French and other foreigners rescued from anti-French rampages across the largest city, Abidjan. An Associated Press photographer saw the bodies of three demonstrators...

I am surrounded by thick black smoke and the smell of burning oil. There was a big explosion a few minutes ago and now I can hear gunfire. A US armoured vehicle has been parked on the street outside my house in the centre of the city. From my window, I can see US soldiers moving around on foot near it. They tried to go from house to house but they kept coming under fire. Now they are firing back at the houses, at anything that moves. It is war on the streets. The American troops look like they have...

NEAR FALLUJAH, IRAQ - U.S.-led troops battled their way into Fallujah Monday, capturing the main hospital and two bridges in the first stage of a long-expected offensive on the rebel stronghold. Two American marines and 42 insurgents were killed as troops moved into the western part of the city, about 60 kilometres west of Baghdad. Artillery and mortars hammered the city Monday morning, following pre-dawn air raids that dropped four 230-kilogram bombs. The marines drowned when their bulldozer overturned in the Euphrates river and were the first American casualties in the assault, the U.S. military said. It confirmed that Iraqi...

As the last light faded at our forward base, the wiry, tough-looking staff sergeant turned to a small group of marines. "We're not going into Falluja to give out fuzzy bears and warm hugs," he said. We were just a short distance from the city the marines expect shortly to storm with overwhelming force of arms. Senior officers here say the final order to go in can come only from the Iraqi Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi. But, in the early hours of Saturday, the marines launched a preliminary attack. This was their biggest military operation since they began steadily tightening...

Debbie Dupeire was so intent on helping to re-elect the president Tuesday that she shucked her Bush-Cheney T-shirt and voted in her bra after being told that state election law prohibits displaying a candidate's name in a polling place.

Interesting article. Only 6 minutes of the video was played on Al Jazeera. They left out the parts where Osama cries in his beer about how they're getting smacked around. http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/33063.htm

Tick off Canadian liberals - vote for W in this poll : Now that the three debates have taken place, who would you like to see win the U.S. presidential race? http://www.theglobeandmail.com/

Washington - Edward Prescott, who picked up the Nobel Prize for Economics on Monday, said President George Bush's tax rate cuts were "pretty small" and should have been bigger. "What Bush has done has been not very big, it's pretty small," Prescott said. "Tax rates were not cut enough," said Prescott. Lower tax rates provided an incentive to work, Prescott said. Prescott and Norwegian Finn Kydland won the 2004 Nobel Economics Prize for research into the forces behind business cycles. The American analyst, who is a professor at Arizona State University and a researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank of...

Hopefully this is a sign of things to come. If these hateful idiots who target our soldeirs and civilians lose religious support, it will certainly make the coalitions lives a lot easier.

Fox web site is now linking to the AP article that includes the account of the documents expert stating the docs are forgeries.