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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) says he will ask senators to "belly up to the bar" and state their views of President Bush's plan to increase troop levels in Iraq by 21,500. "I don't think it is the worst foreign policy blunder since Vietnam," Reid says, "I think it's the biggest foreign policy blunder in the history of our country."

A court-ordered psychiatric evaluation is to be completed this week on Jose Padilla, the American held without charge for nearly four years as an enemy combatant. Whatever the judge decides, the legal saga of the Padilla case poses significant difficulties for the government.

The former director for Mideast Affairs on the National Security Council says the White House censored him while he advised them on relations with Iran.

President Bush this week is committed to redefining his policy in Iraq. Although the bipartisan Iraq Study Group gave the President 79 suggestions on change in tactics in Iraq, it seems as though he's looking for more -- mainly from the Pentagon, State Department and National Security Council.

The first woman to serve as the United States ambassador to the United Nations had died. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick was 80. Appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981, Kirkpatrick distinguished herself as a blunt and forceful advocate of the administration's policies.

The full U.S. Senate may vote as soon as Wednesday on the nomination of Robert Gates to be the next U.S. Secretary of Defense. The vote comes after the Committee on Armed Services unanimously approved Gates' nomination. The former CIA director told senators that the United States was not winning the war in Iraq.

The confirmation hearing for Robert Gates takes place Tuesday. He is nominated to be the next U.S. Secretary of Defense. The hearings are expected to focus on Iraq. But questions remain from Gates' tenure at the CIA.

In advance of a much-anticipated summit between President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Jordan, a leaked White House memo threatens to disrupt the meeting. National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley's memo to President Bush is critical of the Iraqi prime minister.

Afghanistan tops the agenda as the NATO summit opens in Riga, Latvia. President Bush is expected to push European allies for more soldiers and increased spending. In particular, Germany has been under intense international pressure to expand operations in Afghanistan.

Audio recordings obtained by NPR provide a view into the secret world of military tribunals for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The evidence is slim at the unclassified sessions attended by detainees, and few, if any, witnesses are called.