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21 Marines have been killed in the last two days and an American journalist was assassinated after writing an article that said Shiite militia were executing people in the port city of Basra. Colonel David Hunt said some things in Iraq were getting worse, despite what people in the U.S. might think. "What's getting worse is the fact that the Iraqis are not standing up and fighting. Of the ninety battalions that we've trained, only two are capable of independent action, and the rampant corruption within Iraq is hurting everything that we're trying to do." Colonel Bill Cowan addressed other problems. "I was on a year ago talking about unemployment being a factor; it has not gotten much better. The lack of essential services being a factor, it has not gotten much better. We are having a tough time. The insurgents are tough, they are getting smarter. The short answer is we're hanging on." The Factor challenged the Iraqis to get more involved. "Hanging on is not really going to cut it. It seems to me that the Iraqi people are going to have to decide for themselves. It doesn't seem like they're actively involved in their own welfare."

The George Soros-funded group America Coming Together is coming apart and there are big problems at Air America and the LA Times. Fox News Analyst Ellis Henican dissected the collapse of America Coming Together. "It seems to me that the model that was followed there was what I might even call a Republican model. Go raise a bunch of money, huge checks from a few fat cat donors and think you're going to change the world in a day. That is not how political movements are made." The Factor assessed the wider reason for the far-left's decline. "All of this is because most Americans aren't ideological and they don't want these kinds of crazy people ramming stuff down their throat."

A female Catholic School teacher outside of Albany, New York named Sandra Beth Geisel has been arrested for having sex with male students. A lawyer for one of the boys, John Aretakis, recently claimed that Geisel's arrest was directly related to the pedophilia scandal in the Catholic Church. Talk radio host Paul Vandenburgh revealed Aretakis' involvement in the aftermath of that scandal. "John Aretakis is a known attorney in this area because of the fact that he has represented really an inordinate amount of victims of abuse by the Catholic Church and over the years the Albany diocese and John have had a very acrimonious relationship." The Factor alleged that he was attempting to link the two scandals for financial gain. "The lawyer looks to me like he's setting up a suit against the diocese, which does not control the school. He wants money and he's not going to get it from this woman Geisel, she's not going to give him the money that he's after, so he's going to try and link the diocese, which doesn't control the school, into the scandal."

Investigators say that lightning and strong winds contributed to the Air France crash in Toronto yesterday. The plane overshot the runway by 600 yards, but all 309 passengers survived, despite a raging fire. 19-year old passenger Eddie Ho described the chaos. "The first 10 seconds as we touched the ground seemed pretty normal, and in fact people were actually applauding and cheering because we had just overcome a difficult maneuver. But then after the 10 seconds when the plane started shaking violently, we were just shaking like rag dolls in our seats. And I remember I was sitting near the front of the plane and the seating started falling off and the bags started falling down off the compartments. And after that I was just praying to God, you know, that I was going to die or not. I didn't know. It felt as if you were in a huge car accident, but it just kept going."

There is a ferocious debate going on in America over how to interrogate terror suspects. Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain, who have sponsored legislation to set explicit rules for the treatment of detainees in U.S. custody, have met with resistance from the White House. The Factor raised the issue with Senator Graham. "Vice President Cheney, it was reported, doesn't really like you guys wanting to handcuff the President in demanding legislation on what he can and cannot do, or order as Commander in Chief. Is that accurate?" Sen. Graham tried to clarify what he and McCain were proposing. "There are 185 detainees with lawyers, the Supreme Court has given habeas corpus rights to foreign non-citizen terrorists. They are undermining the interrogation that is going on. Lawyers are beginning to run the jail. Congress needs to weigh in here. Congress needs to legitimize the interrogation techniques in the Army Field Manual by passing a Congressional Statute. Congress needs to say that an enemy combatant caught in a foreign land fighting this country can be kept off the battlefield forever if necessary at Guantanamo Bay. Congress should authorize military tribunals for these people. If we don't watch it, Bill, the courts are going to take over this jail."

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Greta Van Susteren, host of On the Record, is back in Aruba. She described the difficulties the prosecution would have trying to prosecute top suspect Joran Van Der Sloot and his friends, the Kalpoe brothers. "Bottom line is you can't charge people based on a bunch of lies. And the fact that they are liars doesn't necessarily mean that they've done something else. You still have to go across that courtroom threshold and present evidence. If this is a murder case, they've got to show that Natalee is dead. And that's the impossible legal hurdle that I think the prosecutor faces tonight."

John Warzybok, Fairfax, VA: "Bill, you were correct in saying Dr. Gross was smarter than you. As a biology teacher, it is not my responsibility to juxtapose the substantive theory of evolution against the non-science of creationism."

Mark Woodbury, Logan, UT: "What anti-creationists are really afraid of is having to explain all the holes in the theory of evolution."

Bob Parker, Glen Allen, VA: "Aside from you and some religious zealots, nobody wants public schools teaching children about 'intelligent design.'"

H.S. Gregory, Covington, LA: "Bill, your Catholic underpinning is showing. Intelligent design is a religious defensive mechanism by people who believe in an imaginary god."