Sep 4th, 2008 · Thursday, John McCain accepts the Republican Party's nomination to run for President in November. He has long been a supporter of the Iraq War. We speak with some convention goers what "winning the war in Iraq" means to them.
Keywords: Iraq · president · Republican Party · conventions · John McCain · Iraq War · nomination
Sep 4th, 2008 · The Sunni paramilitary group Sons of Iraq has been a centerpiece of the American strategy in Iraq. But the group, which receives funding and support from the U.S., is now being targeted by Iraq's Shiite-led government.
Keywords: Iraq · Americans · Shiites · Sunni · Strategy · paramilitary · Sons of Iraq
Sep 4th, 2008 · Republican presidential hopeful John McCain spent years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. You might think people there would be less supportive of McCain because he is a conservative who backs the war in Iraq and was in the U.S. military during the Vietnam war. But McCain has a lot of supporters in Hanoi.
Keywords: Republicans · Iraq · presidential · military · Prisons · Conservation · Vietnam · McCain · John McCain · POWs · Hanoi
Sep 2nd, 2008 · Journalist Steve Coll discusses "The General's Dilemma," his profile of General David Petraeus, which appears in the Sept. 8, 2008 issue The New Yorker.
Keywords: Iraq · road · 2008 · dilemma · New Yorker · Steve Coll · Petraeus · The General · General David Petraeus
Sep 1st, 2008 · The U.S. military handed over Iraq's Anbar province to Iraqi government forces on Monday. The vast desert region west of Baghdad was long a hotbed of the insurgency and the deadliest place in the country for U.S. troops.
Keywords: Iraq · country · region · military · Baghdad · province · Insurgency · hotbed · Anbar
Aug 29th, 2008 · A civilian jury in Riverside, Calif., has acquitted a former Marine on charges of voluntary manslaughter. Jose Nazario Jr. was accused of killing unarmed Iraqi detainees in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004.
Keywords: Iraq · civil · detainees · Marine · Calif · jury · 2004 · voluntary · Fallujah · Riverside · manslaughter · Jose Nazario Jr
Aug 29th, 2008 · Steve Inskeep has this morning's Business News.
Keywords: Iraq · China · company · Steve Inskeep · Business News
Aug 28th, 2008 · Iraq's tourism board aims to promote Baghdad as a fun place to be. There are already plans for a six-star hotel on the Tigris River, golf courses — and now a Ferris wheel. It's inviting proposals for the "Baghdad Eye," which it wants to be taller than the largest Ferris wheel in Europe, the London Eye.
Keywords: Iraq · Europe · proposal · Hotel · Baghdad · Ferri · tourism · Taller · inviting · Tigris River · Baghdad Eye · London Eye