From today's New York Times: "Few Veteran Diplomats Accept Mission to Iraq.... The White House's strategy calls on diplomats to head to some of Iraq's most hostile regions, but many refuse to go."

"Edwards and Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama had distinct perspectives on Iraq, but their other differences were, if anything, more revealing": The American Prospect's Harold Meyerson, reporting on Clinton's, Edwards', and Obama's pitches to the Democratic National Committee.

In The Nation, John Nichols looks at the implications of the mistrial declared yesterday in the court martial of Army Lieutenant Ehren Watada, who refused to be sent to Iraq because he believes the US invasion was illegal.

"Pathetic Senate, Timid Reid on Iraq War": Matthew Rothschild in The Progressive, on this week's Senate debate.