Vice President Joe Biden is visiting U.S. soldiers and Iraqi political leaders on the first trip by a top U.S. leader to Iraq since the June 30 withdrawal of US combat troops from Iraqi towns and cities. Biden's trip comes amid a surge of insurgent...
By Scott Stearns White House 18 August 2007 President Bush says Americans should be encouraged by what he says is political and military progress in Iraq. VOA White House correspondent Scott Stearns reports, the president is defending the war ahead o...