Iraq

"U.S. battlefield casualties in Iraq are increasing dramatically in the face of continued attacks by remnants of Saddam Hussein's military and other forces, with almost 10 American troops a day now being officially declared 'wounded in action,'" the Washington Post's Vernon Lobe writes. With so many troops wounded in action and attacks on soldiers becoming "commonplace," U.S. Central Command only releases the number of wounded when asked -- "making the combat injuries of U.S. troops in Iraq one of the untold stories of the war," Lobe writes.

Alastair Campbell, the top spin doctor for British Prime Minister Tony Blair, has announced his resignation amid continuing controversy over his role in building the case for war with Iraq. Nicknamed England's "real deputy prime minister," Campbell said his family had paid a heavy price for the "real and intense" pressures of his job.

Unable to find Saddam Hussein's suspected chemical and biological weapons, U.S. intelligence officials say they're looking into whether they were victims of a disinformation campaign meant to trick them about Iraq's weapons stockpiles, the Los Angeles Times reports. Officials are now questioning the information coming from Iraqi defectors, claiming the Hussein regime had "double agents" disguised as defectors to the West planting fabricated intelligence.

"I no longer believe; I have lost my conviction, my determination," writes Tim Predmore, a U.S. soldier stationed in Iraq. "I can no longer justify my service for what I believe to be half-truths and bold lies. My time is done as well as that of many others with whom I serve. We have all faced death here without reason or justification. ... How many more tears must be shed before America awakens and demands the return of the men and women whose job it is to protect them rather than their leader's interest?"