Lugar: Possible `very brutal' end to Iran chaos

Sen. Richard Lugar says Iran's supreme leader has pushed the conflict there toward a "very brutal outcome."

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Lugar signs off on Iraq ambassador nomination

Veteran diplomat Christopher Hill on Tuesday won the support of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar to become the next U.S. ambassador to Iraq, even as other GOP senators bluntly urged President Barack Obama to withdraw the nomination.

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Senators pitch new approach to Pakistan aid

Sens. Joseph Biden and Richard Lugar said Tuesday they will push bipartisan legislation this year that would triple humanitarian spending in Pakistan but threaten to cut military aid unless Islamabad does more to fight terrorists.

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Republican Support for Iraq War Slips

Republican support for the Iraq war is slipping by the day. After four years of combat and more than 3,560 U.S. deaths, two Republican senators previously reluctant to challenge President Bush on the war announced they could no longer support the deployment of 157,000 troops and asked the president to begin bringing them home.

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WASHINGTON: US Defence Secretary Robert Gates warned on Thursday that Al Qaida would try to provoke a war between India and Pakistan with the aim to destabilising Pakistan and gaining access to its nuclear arsenal.

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Three Senate Republicans yesterday endorsed Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court, giving increased momentum to securing President Obama's choice a place on the high court by early August.

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He said the Obama administration's policies are not much different from the Bush administration's, but his approach is different.

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WASHINGTON—Richard G.

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The thought of a dual touchscreen laptop was mouth-watering, and the pictures of a touch keyboard had us all wondering if it would create a whole new way of computing

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Who would be the best catches for Obama & McCain? Colin Powell, surely, but who else? And how much do such celebrity endorsements help?

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If the public doesn't seek alternative outlets for truth, it subsists on fabrication. Thus the job of New Media as an oracle of truth is to rescue Americans from delusion.

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Talking about credit, credit where credit is due: I'm fairly critical of Barack Obama, believing that he's a very liberal politician who disguises as a moderate (by talking moderately), but this is a hopeful sign that I may be wrong. "

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Following is the text of U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar's speech at the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.

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Democratic insiders blame Sen.

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On May 30, the Coalition held a ceremony in the Kurdistan town of Erbil to mark its handover of security in Iraq's three Kurdish provinces from the Coalition to the Iraqi government.

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GOP senators Dick Lugar and George Voinovich add their voices to the calls for Bush to withdraw from Iraq. Meanwhile the White House and other leaders urge patience till a September report comes in from the top US military commanders.

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John Edwards, who I like personally, has absolutely no ability to simply answer the question he's asked fully.

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Washington - With the war in Iraq roiling Congress, antiwar groups are targeting dozens of lawmakers – many facing tough reelection races in 2008 – in a bid to peel off enough Republicans to force President Bush to end the war there.

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The pressure on President George Bush over Iraq intensified yesterday, when two senior Republican senators put forward a bill challenging his Iraq strategy and setting out a route for withdrawal of US troops.

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During a teleconference from Iraq with reporters last week, Maj. Gen.

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WASHINGTON: Fearful of a Republican rebellion over Iraq that his own aides believe could force him to change course, President George W.

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Can a trickle become a torrent? It seems that Bush is slowly being deserted about Iraq and it does seem that if the dam breaks, the US President may be left with few friends on his own side.

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Richard Lugar of Indiana, George Voinovich of Ohio, Pete Domenici of New Mexico, and John Warner of Virginia have together served more than a century in the world's greatest deliberative body.

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