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Obambi has found a way to get Joe out of town more: send him to Iraq.Press Secretary Robert Gibbs confirmed Tuesday that President Obama had asked Biden to begin “working with General [Raymond] Odierno and Ambassador [Christopher] Hill in working with the Iraqis toward overcoming their political differences and achieving the type of reconciliation that we all understand has yet to fully take place.”No doubt Mr. Biden's exemplary track record of building bipartisanship and facilitating reconciliation in Washington will be of value. After all, according to Rasmussen's most recent numbers, 50% of Americans think Wasington is more partisan, 31% thinnk...

By JUDITH MILLER and WILLIAM J. BROAD American and British intelligence analysts with direct access to the evidence are disputing claims that the mysterious trailers found in Iraq were for making deadly germs. In interviews over the last week, they said the mobile units were more likely intended for other purposes and charged that the evaluation process had been damaged by a rush to judgment. "Everyone has wanted to find the 'smoking gun' so much that they may have wanted to have reached this conclusion," said one intelligence expert who has seen the trailers and, like some others, spoke on...

Despite a handful of deadly setbacks over the weekend, a U.S.-led army is now less than 160 kilometres from Baghdad. The war may continue for another week, or another month. But soon, Saddam Hussein's regime will fall. But what will replace it? Speaking on Friday, U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld set forward the coalition's war aims in Iraq, a list that included: (1) regime change, (2) the elimination of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, (3) the safeguarding of the country's oil assets for the benefit of the Iraqi people, (4) humanitarian relief and (5) the liquidation of terrorist cells operating...