Iraq

The personnel of the US military have served valiantly, taking on every military challenge they has been given. They have fought nobly and completed their missions.

The problem is that we're in a war that military alone cannot win.

A conference to reconcile Iraq's warring political groups began to unravel even before it got under way on Tuesday, with the main Sunni Muslim Arab bloc pulling out and protesting it had not been properly invited.....

The head of the Sadrist political bloc, Nassar al-Rubaie, arrived at the conference but refused to say whether he would take an active role.....

The Iraqi National List, a secular bloc headed by former interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, had already said they would not attend....

It was unclear whether Sunni Arab tribal leaders responsible for the neighborhood security units would attend."

(AP) "As of Monday, March 17, 2008, at least 3,990 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003....."