Our Leaders?????-Republicans "set aside $20 million for a commemoration of success in Iraq and Afghanistan."

"The funding was tucked away in the small print attached to a congressional military spending bill for the past year. Also inserted was a provision for the money to roll over into 2007 if it was not used.

The news from Iraq suggests the party will not be taking place soon. Four US soldiers were killed yesterday, bringing the number of American troops killed since Saturday to 21. And at least 13 people died yesterday and dozens were injured in a series of bomb blasts in a busy area in the south of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. About 75 people were reported injured when three explosions hit the mainly Christian Camp Sarah district The US casualty toll now stands at more than 2734, with almost 120 British troops killed. Two years ago a report in the Lancet suggested over 100,000 Iraqi civilians had been killed."