SUBLIMINAL NEWS STORY OF THE WEEK

WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Top Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Tuesday President George W. Bush must fire key architects of his Iraq policies to gain help from the international community to rebuild the country.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California and Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, the top Democrat on the Appropriations defense subcommittee, said it should be up to Bush whom to fire and refused to say who should take the blame for policies they said were disastrously flawed.

"Somebody has to go. Somebody has to be held responsible," said Murtha, regarded as one of the U.S. Congress' most pro-defense Democrats and an early supporter of the war.