• Daily Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq AP

• Iraq Body Count

• At least 25 said killed in attack on Iraq town Reuters.uk, UK

• 39 more killed in Iraq; political dispute grows Indianapolis Star

• Civilians Bearing Brunt of Iraq Violence AP

• Gunmen storm electricity substation, kill Shiite workers in ... Asharq Alawsat, UK 

• 61 suspected Iraqi insurgents held Scotsman

• US Intel: Qaeda Plotting 'Big Bang' CBS News

• Baghdad under daytime vehicular curfew CNN

• Groups take step to oust Iraqi leader Newsday, NY

• Australia to bid for Iraq wheat business The Age

• US-Indian nuclear deal swiftly rebuked Detroit Free Press
   

“They said when President Bush arrives in India, he'll have 5,000 security personnel protecting him. 5,000. I wonder if any of them work for that Arab government that Bush says we're going to trust with our ports?”-- Jay Leno

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Opium production and trafficking account for one-third of Afghanistan's economy and is complicating U.S. efforts to rebuild the country and its government, a State Department report said Wednesday.

Today, President Bush said the economy is great! Unemployment is down and the future looks bright! Of course, he was talking to the people of India at the time. -- Jay Leno

Sen. John Warner (R-Va.), the powerful chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, already has Iraq on his plate, so he's doing his best to stay out of a nasty dispute involving his son and a former CNN producer...."I wrote, directed and produced them, and field-produced. I was a full partner," Causey told...

"Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent. You know what President Bush is giving up for Lent? Our ports." --Jay Leno

"President Bush made a surprise trip to Afghanistan, and he promised the Afghanis that the United States would not cut and run. Then he got on his plane and left." --Conan O'Brien

Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson, criticized by some evangelicals for comments about Venezuela's president and Israel's prime minister, lost a bid for re-election to the National Religious Broadcasters' board of directors.
 

"You know Condoleezza Rice? So she's down there in Washington, and she's on a TV show and they go with her to the gym. Condoleezza Rice, secretary of state, and they're watching her work out. ... Here's what it is, it's called the Republican work-out. Every morning, you bench press a bag of laundered cash." --David Letterman

Pamela P. Willeford , the third shooter in Vice President Cheney 's recent hunting excursion, apparently has yet to publicly remark on the incident or why she was in Texas at all that day, since she is posted as our ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein...embassy public affairs officer Daniel Wendell said in an e-mail. "In the 2 1/2 years she has been ambassador," he said, though she officially took over only 27 months ago, "Ambassador Willeford has been away from post for family and personal travel for a total of 21 weeks."

 

Diplomacy Challenged

An unpopular punctuality drive launched in the U.N. Security Council last month by U.S. Ambassador John Bolton came to an abrupt end on Thursday when Argentina took over the council's rotating presidency.
 

"Harriet Miers studied law her whole life, and Anna Nicole Smith made it to the Supreme Court before she did" --Jay Leno

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