Here is another excerpt from Bob Woodward's new book. This one is about the efforts by then Chief of Staff Andy Card to convince the President that Rumsfeld should go.

Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter, himself a Vietnam vet with a son currently serving in the military, urges the American people not to give up on Iraq.

The political situation in the Palestinian territories continues to deteriorate, as Hamas and Fatah are now openly engaging in gunbattles. They are teetering dangerously close to the edge of a real civil war.

Suzanne Fields decries the surrender of a German opera company to the intimidation of the Islamofascists. I expect this pattern to continue as peace-loving, agnostic Westerners continue to try and appease the Islamofascists until, eventually, their lives and properties seem so threatened that they will have to react.

A letter from an Al Qaeda official to the late Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, found in the rubble of Zarqawi's safehouse after it was blasted by American bombs, has been translated, leading to this story in the Washington Post. It appears that Bin Laden and Dr. Zawahiri were still trying to convince Zarqawi to change his tactics to avoid alienating Sunni tribesmen in Iraq, as well as the Shiite population. It also appears to confirm that Al Qaeda's leadership is hiding in Waziristan, which is part of Pakistan. If the Democrats win control of Congress, do you think they will urge the President to invade Pakistan as part of their "leave Iraq and concentrate on getting Bin Laden" strategy?