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WASHINGTON — Bob Woodward, who wrote two books praising President Bush and then a third harshly criticizing him, is out with a fourth tome that renders a mixed verdict on Bush, lauding the president’s surge of troops into Iraq, but saying "too often he failed to lead." At 487 pages, "The War Within" is the fourth installment in Woodward’s series of books on the president. Its release is embargoed until Monday, although an advance copy was obtained exclusively by FOX News. The new book is less critical than Woodward’s last tome, "State of Denial," which savaged Bush for his execution...

BAGHDAD - Twenty beheaded bodies were discovered Thursday on the banks of the Tigris River southeast of Baghdad, while a parked car bomb killed another 20 people in one of the capital’s busy outdoor bus stations, police said. The beheaded remains were found in the Sunni Muslim village of Um al-Abeed, near the city of Salman Pak, which lies 14 miles southeast of Baghdad.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Fourteen U.S. troops have been killed in attacks over the past two days in Iraq -- 12 soldiers and two Marines -- according to the U.S. military. In the deadliest attack, a roadside bomb struck a military vehicle on Thursday in northeastern Baghdad, killing five U.S. soldiers, three Iraqi civilians and an Iraqi interpreter. A U.S. soldier and two civilians were wounded.

...At least nine U.S. service members were killed in combat and by bombs across Iraq on Tuesday and six were wounded, the U.S. military said Wednesday. During May, 81 U.S. military personnel have died, bringing the total since the war began to 3,432, including seven civilian employees of the Defense Department.

BAGHDAD — Seven American soldiers and a translator were killed in separate attacks in Baghdad and a city south of the capital, the U.S. military said today. Six of the Americans and the translator died Saturday in a bombing in western Baghdad, the military said. The soldiers were from the Multinational Division-Baghdad. A soldier from the 13th Sustainment Command was killed and two were wounded when a blast struck their vehicle Saturday near Diwaniyah, a mostly Shiite city 80 miles south of Baghdad, the command said.

BAGHDAD - The powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his militiamen on Sunday to redouble their battle to oust American forces and argued that Iraq’s army and police should join him in defeating “your archenemy.” The U.S. military announced the weekend deaths of 10 American soldiers, including six killed on Sunday.

BAGHDAD, April 2 — A day after members of an American Congressional delegation led by Senator John McCain pointed to their brief visit to Baghdad’s central market as evidence that the new security plan for the city was working, the merchants there were incredulous about the Americans’ conclusions.

I just saw part of this video on NBC. Disgusting. How an insurgent is able to sneak up to this Bradley TWICE and was not detected is beyond me. Has anyone seen this before? Thoughts, Comments...?

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Five U.S. troops have died during military operations in Anbar province, west of Baghdad, a U.S. military statement said Thursday. The deaths bring the U.S. military death toll in October to 96, the highest monthly toll since October a year ago. "One Sailor assigned to 3rd Naval Construction Regiment, two Marines assigned to Regimental Combat Team 5 and two Marines assigned to Regimental Combat Team 7 died Wednesday from injuries sustained due to enemy action while operating in Al Anbar Province," the statement said.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A roadside bomb killed a provincial intelligence chief in southern Iraq early Wednesday, one of four police officers killed in attacks around the country. The military reported 10 U.S. troops killed in bombings and combat a day earlier, raising to 69 the number of U.S. troops killed in October. etc...

WOODWARD BOOK: Kissinger is secret, regular visitor to President Bush. The president likes to receive visits from Nixon's former and most famous aide... MORE... 60 MINUTES/Woodward interview set for Sunday, along with rollout in WASHPOSTNEWSWEEK... Bob Woodward tells CBS Mike Wallace that Bush admin has not been honest about level of violence in Iraq: 'The truth is that the assessment by intelligence experts is that next year, 2007, is going to get worse and, in public, you have the president and you have the Pentagon [saying], 'Oh, no, things are going to get better''...

For all of you Lou Dobbs fans... he is doing a great job on trashing the NSA database. Like I said, name a subject and he'll trash the administration on it.

Americans have a bleaker view of the country's direction than at any time in more than two decades, and sharp disapproval of President Bush's handling of gasoline prices has combined with intensified unhappiness about Iraq to create a grim political environment for the White House and Congressional Republicans, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.

New poll at CNN has Bush's approval rating at 38%... Ouch!

"The respondents' concerns were echoed in President Bush's overall approval rating, which dropped to 39 percent, down from 42 percent in a poll taken February 6-9. Fifty-six percent of respondents said they disapproved of the way the president is handling his job. The margin of error in the poll is plus or minus 3 percentage points."

WASHINGTON - Heading into Tuesday's State of the Union address and the beginning of the 2006 political season, President Bush faces an electorate that continues to be dissatisfied with his job performance, increasingly wants U.S. soldiers to come home from Iraq, and believes the Republican Party is associated more with special interests and lobbyists, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll...

On MSNBC at the top of the hour one of their correspondents at the White House was talking about how the eavesdropping story could spell trouble for Bush and how is ratings could be affected. He went on to give a review of how the NSA was eavesdropping on Americans and how they were spying on mosques, but never once did he say that these programs were being targeted to "known terrorists" and those that they happen to contact. If someone had not listened to the news in the past 2 weeks and had watched this reporter's story, they would...

(CNN) -- Beset with an unpopular war and an American public increasingly less trusting, President Bush faces the lowest approval rating of his presidency, according to a national poll released Monday. Bush also received his all-time worst marks in three other categories in the CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll. The categories were terrorism, Bush's trustworthiness and whether the Iraq war was worthwhile.

....According to the poll, Bush’s approval rating stands at an all-time low of 38 percent, a one-point decline since October; in fact, this is the third consecutive NBC/Journal survey showing Bush at an all-time low on his job approval. And it doesn’t stop there: Approval for his handling of the economy (34 percent), foreign policy (35 percent), terrorism (39 percent), and Iraq (32 percent) have all hit rock bottom.

For the first time in his presidency, a majority of Americans question the integrity of President Bush, and growing doubts about his leadership have left him with record negative ratings on the economy, Iraq and even the war on terrorism, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.