A busy day in news, and it just 8.30 on the West Coast:

Ted Koppel retiring from ABC News after 25 years.
A presidential commission reporting that US Intelligence was Dead Wrong on Iraq.
Pope still wants to keep on living, no matter the physical condition.
More Iraq bombings.
Almost a million and a half Mercedes are being recalled.

And all will be overshadowed by Schiavo finally, finally dying.

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