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• AP: Pentagon opposes quicker Iraq drawdown
WASHINGTON - President Bush's top defense advisers have recommended he maintain 15 combat brigades in Iraq until the end of the year, contrary to expectations that the improved security in Iraq would allow for quicker cuts, The Associated Press has ...
• Iraq to open museum at Abu Ghraib prison
BAGHDAD - Iraq is planning to give the notorious Abu Ghraib prison a facelift, complete with a museum documenting Saddam Hussein's crimes, though not abuses committed there by U.S. guards, the government said Thursday. The government said the ...
• Iraqi surge exceeded expectations, Obama says
LANCASTER, Pa. - Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said Thursday that the escalation of U.S. troops in Iraq, which he had opposed, has succeeded in reducing violence "beyond our wildest dreams.
• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,154
As of Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008, at least 4,154 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians killed in action. At least 3,375 ...
• Palin fires back at media, ‘Washington elite’
Palin praised the senator as “a man who wore the uniform of this country for 22 years and refused to break faith with those troops in Iraq who have now brought victory within sight.