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Most, if not all, of the Democrats in the Senate want the war in Iraq to be over. Some want U.S. troops to be withdrawn immediately, if not yesterday. Yet, when pressed, many of them also plan to vote to continue funding the war. That makes a consensus — and a strategy — hard to find.

About 10,000 Israeli troops are now fighting across a wide stretch of southern Lebanon in an expanding offensive. Hezbollah struck back Wednesday with one of the heaviest rocket barrages of the three-week-old war. At least 150 rockets hit Israel, killing one.

In the war in Iraq, no one is truly behind the front lines. A large number of women soldiers are among the wounded, suffering from burns and broken bones, lost limbs and disfiguring scars. We meet three such women at the Brooke Army Medical Center facility in San Antonio, Texas.

American support for the war in Iraq is stronger now than it was a month ago, according to a new Pew Research Center poll. The poll's findings also show an improvement in President Bush's standing over the past month. Hear NPR's Michele Norris and Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center.

A recently published article in The New Republic alleges the Bush administration is manipulating the so-called "war on terror" for partisan political gain. NPR's Tavis Smiley talks with John Judis, a senior editor at the magazine who co-authored the controversial article, and Clifford May, president of The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.

After a brief hiatus, the presidential political ad wars are on again in earnest. The selection of John Edwards as John Kerry's running mate had led both campaigns to let loose a barrage of new commercials for both local and national markets. NPR's John McChesney previews the coming ads.

Poet Brian Turner served as a sergeant in the US Army's Third Stryker Brigade in Iraq. Here, Bullet, collects the poems through which he reflects the experience of war.

Morning Edition begins a series on important issues in the presidential campaign. In the first part of the series, NPR's Steve Inskeep examines the views of President Bush and Sen. John Kerry on the war in Iraq. He talks with two people -- Jamie Rubin, an advisor to the Kerry campaign and former State Department spokesman, and Dan Senor former spokesman for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad.

Analysis by the Associated Press shows America's small towns are bearing a disproportionate burden of the Iraq war dead. Nearly half of the more than 3,100 U.S. military fatalities in Iraq have come from towns of 25,000 or fewer people.

The antiwar movement in Israel has largely been driven by the desire to return the hostages home, but now there is a growing number focusing on the plight of Palestinians.