Dana Milbank - Iraq and Americorps

U.S. Shifts Rhetoric On Its Goals in Iraq
New Emphasis: Middle East Stability

While that notion was low on the original list of reasons for war, it has largely replaced the "weapons of mass destruction" as justification.

Parting Blow: Official Questions AmeriCorps

A program that Bush embraced to show his compassionate conservatism is going down the drain.

AmeriCorps, a favorite program of Bill Clinton that was embraced by Bush as an emblem of his "compassionate conservatism," faces a budget shortfall brought about by a series of accounting problems that led the program to enroll too many participants.

Bush Takes Responsibility for Iraq Claim

The president's taking of "personal responsibility" for the charge in his State of the Union address that Iraq sought nuclear material in Africa followed three weeks in which he allowed others on his staff and at the CIA to take the blame for including the charge, which was doubted by U.S. intelligence and was later learned to be based in part on forged documents.