Georgia's president said Friday that his country is under attack from Russian tanks and warplanes, and he accused Russia of targeting civilian populations as tensions over the breakway Georgian region of South Ossetia appeared to boil over into full-blown conflict.

"All day today they've been bombing Georgia from numerous warplanes and specifically targeting (the) civilian population, and we have scores of wounded and dead among (the) civilian population all around the country," Mikhail Saakashvili told CNN in an exclusive interview.

On August 8, 2008, Russian television stations reported that Russian troops moved into Georgia's "breakaway" South Ossetia region. Georgian troops launched a major military offensive Friday to regain control over the breakaway province of South Ossetia and the president accused Russia, which has close ties to the separatists, of bombing Georgian territory.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Republican presidential front-runner Sen. John McCain on Thursday defended his statement that U.S. troops could spend "maybe 100" years in Iraq --
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/14/mccain.king/

WASHINGTON - The Iraqi government could end the year with as much as a $79 billion budget surplus as ever-increasing oil revenues pile on top of leftover income the Iraqis still haven't spent on their national rebuilding effort, congressional auditors say.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080806/...s_iraq_surplus

U.S. Confirmed Deaths
Reported Deaths: 4133
Confirmed Deaths: 4130
Pending Confirmation: 3
http://icasualties.org/oif/