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The United States has not come through tragedy, trial and war to falter. Americans are proving the state of the union is strong, and they are "are rising to the tasks of history," President George W. Bush said in the State of the Union address tonight. Bush, speaking to both bodies of Congress at the U.S. Capitol, said the government's greatest responsibility is the active defense of the American people. He said that in the 28 months since the attacks of Sept. 11, there are many who believe the danger is passed. "That hope is understandable, comforting – and false,"...

Task Force All-American soldiers nabbed two more senior anti-coalition leaders during combat operations in western Iraq, according to a Combined Joint Task Force 7 news release. The release noted that Brig. Gen. Kalil Ibraham Fayal al-Dulaymi and Gen. Mamoud Khudair Younes were captured by 82nd Airborne Division troops today and Jan. 14, respectively. The operations also included the detention of 41 other suspected insurgents, and followed the Jan. 11 seizure of Khamis Sirhan al-Muhammad, former Baathist Party regional leader in Anbar province, which includes Fallujah, Khalidiyah and Ramadi, under the deposed Saddam Hussein regime. Al-Dulaymi, the release stated, was the...