In news from Iraq, Senator John McCain and Vice President Dick Cheney have made separate unannounced visits to Iraq ahead of the fifth anniversary of the US invasion. McCain claimed his visit was a fact-finding venture, not a campaign photo opportunity. Cheney is on a ten-day visit to the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, Israel, the West Bank and Turkey. Cheney started his trip on Sunday, exactly five years after he predicted the US will be greeted in Iraq as “liberators,” a claim John McCain later supported.