WASHINGTON - With tempers flaring Tuesday on the eve of congressional action, Vice President Dick Cheney denounced the Democratic leader of the Senate for pressing for timelines to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq beginning later this year.

April 25 (Bloomberg) -- Democrats said the House is likely to give final approval today to a measure calling for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, as party members defy President George W. Bush's veto threat in an increasingly partisan debate.

The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq criticised Baghdad on Wednesday for concealing the casualty figures from its sectarian war and charged that many detainees have "disappeared".

The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq criticised Baghdad on Wednesday for concealing the casualty figures from its sectarian war and charged that many detainees have "disappeared".

BAGHDAD (AFP) - The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq on Wednesday criticised Baghdad for concealing the casualty figures from its sectarian war and alleged that many detainees have "disappeared."

WASHINGTON -- The House voted last week to insist that a war spending bill Congress will send to President Bush contain binding deadlines for withdrawing U.S. soldiers from Iraq.

THE UN Assistance Mission for Iraq criticised the Iraqi Government Wednesday for blocking access to casualty figures from the war-torn country over the past three months.

"Deep Throats were talking, but few in the press were listening," Bill Moyers says in "Buying the War," a cold-eyed look at how lock-step with the Bush administration the mainstream news media became in the months leading up to the Iraq war.

Liberal hawk Peter Beinart, TV pundit and editor of the New Republic and a former very vocal proponent of the war with Iraq, lets slip, in Bill Moyers' report tonight for PBS, "Buying the War," a dirty little insight into the selling of the war to the public:

It's true that violence sells daily local and national news. It's also true in concerns to the war in Iraq. Unfortunately, when there is so much time and energy given to the focus of what has gone wrong in Iraq, the good of what can happen is forgotten about.