News You Might Have Missed

This week's round up of things that might have slipped through the crack in your news consumption:

• As if they needed more problems. There's a cholera outbreak spreading in Iraq.

• Probably not the recognition they wanted. Somalia named worst governed country in sub-Saharan Africa.

• Oh, those crazy Alaskan politicians. Representative Don Young changed an earmark after it was already signed into law.

• How do you say "liar" in Spanish? A transcript of a 2003 talk between Bush and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria reveals Bush was dead set on war, all the while publicly proclaiming hope for a peaceful resolution.

• Nothing could possibly go wrong with this. Contractors are jumping into the drug war.

• Buy hey, at least we've got those yellow ribbons on our cars. Wounded vets still getting poor care, even after promises of change.
  

• You can't make this stuff up. Bin Laden may have gotten away at Tora Bora. Again.
  

• Eh, what's $9 billion more? Congress approves new funding for Iraq.

• Who needs clean air and water, anyway? EPA cracking down on fewer cases under Bush.
  

• California's not the only one with problems. The largest tundra fire ever recorded on Alaska's northern slope continues to burn.