Project 1 - Newspaper Stories (Week 2)

McCain confident of Iraq success (Al Jazeera)
- McCain supported the surge and says that it worked
- He said it is “a failure of leadership” to withdraw troops

Cheney OK'd CIA's harsh interrogation tactics, says ex-official (Seattle Times)
- Justice department signs off on using water-boarding (simulated drowning) tactic on suspected terrorists
- ACLU is calling on congress to investigate

Decision on more troop cuts is up to Petraeus, Bush says (Seattle Times)
- the “surge” troops will be withdrawn by July
- Gen. David Petraeus will have as much time as he needs to withdraw the rest of the troops

Fire destroys Clinton's campaign office in Ind. (USA Today)
- two Clinton employees escaped unharmed
- no evidence of arson

Obama loses 10-point edge over McCain (USA Today)
- Democrats are saying that if their candidate does not win the nomination they will vote for McCain
- McCain is essentially tied with the other candidates

Rooting for McCain, From a Distance (NY Times)
- Bush is supporting McCain
- They are keeping distance from one another as it may not be in McCain’s best interest to be associated with bush

Obama Wants Reforms in Campaign Financing (NY TIMES)
- the system is outdated and hasn’t changed since its creating in 1976
- It does not allow for contributions over the internet from millions of Americans

Obama rips McCain in Gary (Chicago Sun Times)
- criticized McCain’s war position and plan to fix the foreclosure problem
- Obama claimed to have the ability to fix Indianans economy

Clinton proposes 100,000 new police officers on streets (Los Angelas Times)
- proposed a 4 billion/year anti-crime plan
- mayor of philidephia introduced clinton saying americans are more worried "about al Gangster than al Qaeda."

McCain urges Bush to consider boycotting Olympic opening ceremonies (Los Angelas Times)
- McCain joined Clinton and Obama in condeming china for human rights violations
- McCain wants the Chinese government to let the people of Tibet practice their beliefs without persecution