The Bush Administration and new Democratic-led Congress have different views over the way forward in the war on terrorism, but a new World Public Opinion poll shows Americans of both parties are lining up on the same side. The December poll shows a majority of both Republicans and Democrats want a timeline in Iraq that would bring most US troops home by early 2008. A majority of Americans in both parties also agree with the Iraq Study Group that it is time to talk with Iran rather than continuing to use the threat of military force to effect a change in behavior.
The Air Force on March 12 awarded contract modifications worth a combined $2.4 billion to Boeing to procure an undisclosed number of E-7 Wedgetail as part of the program's engineering and manufacturing development phase and continue work on the airborne battle management aircraft’s radar.