Author: Jeff Huber

National Security Adviser Steven J. Hadley is still looking for someone to take a high profile job that folks in Washington are referring to as the “war czar.”  The war czar, as Sheryl Gay Stolberg of the New...

In the face of a showdown with Congress over mandatory timelines for troop redeployments from Iraq, the White House and Pentagon struggle to retain their blank check.   The art of the lowered expectation has long been a...

As the Senate sent legislation to the White House that calls for troop withdrawal timelines, General David Petraeus, top U.S. commander in Iraq, said that the war will require “an enormous commitment” by the United...

The fight over the Iraq spending bill is drawing to a head.  The Senate is scheduled to vote on a joint resolution that will give Mr. Bush his $124 billion in war spending but will call for a U.S. troop withdrawal timeline....

General David Petraeus, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, says the ongoing surge of troops in Iraq is achieving “modest progress.”  But he also allows as how, yeah, there have been setbacks–devastating...