The world is beginning to doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism"The world is beginning to doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism," said Powell, who served under Bush and is a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "To redefine Common Article 3 would add to those doubts. Furthermore, it would put our own troops at risk."



U.N. Inspectors Dispute Iran Report By House Panel
"This is like prewar Iraq all over again," said David Albright, a former nuclear inspector who is president of the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security. "You have an Iranian nuclear threat that is spun up, using bad information that's cherry-picked and a report that trashes the inspectors."

Ice caps are melting even in winter, global warming evidence mounts
NASA has measured sea ice since 1978, compiling an average of wintertime melt. In the last two winters -- 2005 and 2006 -- an extra 6 percent has melted.