BUSH AWARDS PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM TO FRANKS, BREMER, TENET

U.S. foreign policy impacts most countries around the world. It is the cause of many troubles and miseries, as well as an increased hunger for power. Many analysts and politicians illustrate that these impacts create a shadowed impression on the U.S. foreign policy.

U.S. forces in Iraq carry out various military campaigns. Military forces arrest and kill innocent Iraqis using the excuse of fighting al-Qaida and confronting terrorism. This issue was featured in Iraqi newspapers Monday.

The al-Basaer newspaper of the Association of Muslim Scholars in its Thursday editorial said the scenario envisioned by U.S. President George Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki regarding the timetable for U.S. troop withdrawal is only meant to anesthetize the Iraqi people.

The al-Basaer newspaper of The Association of Muslim Scholars in its Wednesday editorial titled "Liberation of Iraq is a medal to the resistance and won't be taken by the agents" said the goal of the Iraqi resistance and opposition parties for a U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq is a means to achieve sovereignty and liberation.

The independent Azzaman newspaper ran an editorial Friday with the title "A large number of Iraqis are between illusion and reality."

WASHINGTON, May 16 (UPI) -- One aspect of private military and security contractors that is relatively ignored is their relationship with regular military forces. Such discussion, as there is, is generally limited to sound bites about the reported envy that soldiers have for allegedly better paid security contractors.

UPI Almanac for Tuesday, May 6, 2008.

Shabab Al Iraq newspaper carried an editorial Wednesday with the headline "Some of Bremer's deeds in Iraq."

Al Zaman newspaper Tuesday addressed issues of financing the U.S. occupation in an editorial titled "U.S. costs are the obstacles of the sixth year."

ERBIL, Iraq, April 3 (UPI) -- Jay Garner, the first U.S. administrator in Iraq following the ouster of Saddam Hussein, likened the Kurdish region to a potential federalized Iraq.