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This week, the opposition to President Bush’s plan to send more troops to Iraq is continuing to grow. Can Congress do anything to prevent the president from moving forward with the plan? Also, Carol

A novel experiment to bring health care to poor Ugandans has been under way for several years. The idea was to set up HMOs within already existing agricultural co-ops. How are things working out?

Iran may be under United Nations sanctions for nuclear-arms technology, but Russia has recently sold Tehran new conventional weapons. This week, Moscow said it has completed deliveries of anti-aircraft missiles, and it is ready to sell more arms to Iran.

As political rhetoric on Capitol Hill grows louder about plans for a troop buildup in Iraq, four seasoned retired generals give their assessments to members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Their opinions range from tentative support for the president's plan to calling it a fool's errand.

Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT), a candidate for president, is calling for prohibiting increasing troop levels in Iraq without congressional approval. Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE), a potential presidential candidate, is offering a resolution opposing "escalation" of the war. And Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) is talking about her recent trip to Iraq.

Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) says Iraq isn't doing enough to secure itself and sending more U.S. troops won't help. Clinton just returned from a trip to Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, where she met with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

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In an announcement made on his Web site, Sen. Barack Obama says he will form a presidential exploratory committee. The first-term Democrat says he will go into greater detail about his White House plans on Feb. 10.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates gets a briefing on the Afghan insurgency. He is traveling in Europe, the Middle East and Afghanistan in an attempt to shore up international and NATO support for a continued war against the Taliban.

The only prosecution associated with the leak of Valerie Plame's status as an undercover CIA agent moves forward. Lawyers will begin questioning potential jury members for the trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former aide to Vice President Cheney.