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It was only one year ago that Newsweek ran its post-mortem on the 2004 Presidential election, culling more than a year’s worth of reporting that the magazine had pledged to keep secret until the final votes were cast. Thanks to that pledge of secrecy, both candidates offered Newsweek reporters unprecedented access to their campaigns, allowing them to observe, record, and witness the event for the history books. The resulting narrative was well worth their effort. The most remarkable section, however, was the validation of a long-standing rumor of the 2004 campaign: Senator John Kerry did, in fact, offer Senator John...

Senator John McCain on Thursday called for an immediate increase of 10,000 troops in Iraq, and said the “stakes are higher than they were in Vietnam” for US foreign policy. Conceding that there was an “undeniable sense that things are slipping” in Iraq, Mr McCain said “we need a renewed effort to win the home front. Without it we will lose this war as soundly as if we had lost on the battlefield...We must get Iraq right, as American stakes in the conflict are enormous”. Senator John Kerry has laid out an alternative strategy that would enable the US to...