From USA Today: In Iraq vote, Congress is casting aside the Constitution, by David B. Rivkin Jr. & Lee A. Casey. From the New York Post: Hostage Sailors–Britain’s Impotence, by Arthur Herman. From RIA Novosti: Putin’s seven years in power, by Andrei Vavra. From the Sydney Morning Herald: ‘Guilty’ puts end to the Hicks myth, by Miranda Devine. From the Hill: Playing chicken on war funding, by John Fortier.