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Party Of Retreat: The Senate's top Democrat has announced to terrorists a U.S. surrender in Iraq. Considering our new strategy's documented successes, Harry Reid's determination to lose is practically treasonous. In a week that saw the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, and a Senate committee subject the attorney general to a modern-day Salem witch trial, the Senate majority leader managed to say something that made headlines: "This war is lost," the Nevada Democrat told reporters Thursday, "and this surge is not accomplishing anything." That's odd. According to the Pentagon, the influx of tens of thousands of troops, accompanied by...

Leader of the Democratic majority in the US Congress, Harry Reid, has said the US has lost the Iraq war, and Bush's troop surge has failed...... "I believe ... that this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything, as is shown by the extreme violence in Iraq this week," Reid stated. The same comments were made to President Bush when he had convened with senior lawmakers to persuade them to pass the emergency war funding bill. Congress is trying to confine the war spending bill to a timetable for the removal of troops from Iraq. Reid's comments...

You have some great pictures there, Cara. I'm a landscape person mainly, so it looks like I really need to get up to Death Valley. Nicely done. I saw the picture of the bird taking flight from off of the cactus. Great shot! Macro lenses are real fun. I have the Nikon 105mm f/2.8 Micro, and it will allow me to get within a couple inches of some subjects. The thing that you need to remember with macro, though, is your depth of view is REALLY small, even with wide apertures. Thus, shooting in aperture-priority mode with the camera is...