Representative Waxman sets September 10 deadline for White House to turn over information about "missing" email; court hears testimony of US Marine ordered to execute Haditha women and children; US nuclear weapons components misplaced; Paul Krugman writes on Bush's neglect of the Gulf Coast and how conservative governance promotes its agenda by failing; Merkel says US must support climate deal

Germany's Merkel Urges US to Support Climate Deal http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083107N.shtml Sophie Hardach reports for Reuters, "The United States must support a global deal to cut carbon dioxide emissions and combat climate change as time is running out in the fight against global warming, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday." And Elizabeth Sawin writes for CommonDreams