From Canada without love for the U.S. President.

Katie Couric landed in Iraq a few days ago.

The CBS anchorwoman writes in her blog:

I was in New Orleans last week, which seems like nirvana compared to Baghdad.

You can’t help but wonder if this place will survive, much less thrive. Meanwhile, all U.S. and Iraqi soldiers patrolling the streets have my renewed respect and appreciation.

One-hundred-and-ten degrees with full-body armor and heavy uniforms. I don’t know how they do it.

But they do, and we should be grateful.

Katie Couric knew she would have high-level access during her trip to Iraq, but it wasn’t until yesterday morning that she discovered just how far that would extend.

Yesterday, a general called CBS’s Baghdad bureau chief to say that the CBS anchor should go to a nearby heliport to be taken to an undisclosed location for an important interview.

She was flown to Anbar province to see and interview President Bush, who was making a surprise stopover in Iraq en route to Australia.

A surprise visit.

And a surprise interview.

(Picture by Charles Dharapak/Associated Press)

The new graphic model of Eleftheros Tipos is able to display photos like this one (in today’s paper).

After the recent fiasco in Germany, 10,000 Italian police were deployed today as a precaution in central Rome.

But only 12,000 people marched there.

Mr Bush was heard today in the Vatican referring to the Pope as “sir” instead of the expected “His Holiness.”

Well… for a Texas president, that’s not too bad.

He didn’t call him “buddy.”

The New York Times has been publishing very sensitive front page pictures about the situation in Iraq.

Almost every day.

All of them are excellent examples of photojournalism.

And, I am sure, a nightmare for the White House.

You don’t need too many words to understand what’s going on there…

Just pictures like these.