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John Edwards / Washington Post:
The Right Way in Iraq — I was wrong. — Almost three years ago we went into Iraq to remove what we were told — and what many of us believed and argued — was a threat to America. But in fact we now know that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction when our forces invaded Iraq in 2003.
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Don Surber:
Edwards Is Wrong About Being Wrong — John Edwards lays out in the Washington Post the new Democratic Party tack to derail President Bush: Surrender Iraq. — It is a disingenuous plan that requires a false confession of error on his part. ("I was wrong.") A false premise for the war.
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BBC:
Riot erupts in French city centre — Police in the French city of Lyon have fired tear gas to break up groups of youths who hurled stones and bins hours before a curfew was due to begin. — Police on the city's famous Place Bellecour square made two arrests in what state news agency AFP …
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Ferdinand T Cat / Conservative Cat:
Have the French Lost Touch Again? — When I last discussed the Paris riots, I thought that the whole mess was on the verge of dying out completely. After all, the Chirac government had declared a state of emergency and the number of incidents had declined for two straight nights.
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Matthew Campbell / Times of London:Wounded Chirac 'losing grip' of riot-hit France
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:French Riots Gain Steam Again Over The Weekend
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Epoch Times:
Pigs in China's Hunan Province Test Positive for Bird Flu — Chinese officials revealed that pigs have tested positive for bird flu in Xiangtan County, Hunan Province, where a bird epidemic is raging and one human death, possibly from bird flu, has already occurred, reported Phoenix TV on November 10.
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Mr. Snitch / Mister Snitch!:
Charlie Rose interviews the Avian Flu, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the pandemic — In deciding how to feel about the Avian Flu, we've settled on alarm combined with morbid acceptance. It's like realizing the house is surrounded by Zombies and they've cut off the phone liines.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Yale Law Frets Over Court Choices It Knows Best — NEW HAVEN, Nov. 8 - The morning after Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. was announced as the president's choice for the Supreme Court, some students and professors at his alma mater, the Yale Law School, were already hard at work - to defeat him.
Andrew / www.AndrewSullivan.com:
THE 'WATERBOARDING' TEST: — Here's an astonishing sentence from the Wall Street Journal editorial board, a group whose support for cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment of military detainees is persistent, unalloyed and enthusiastic. Notice this language:
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Gillian Flaccus / Associated Press:
Calif. May Build Tunnel in Quake Region — ALISO VIEJO, Calif. (AP) - Traffic is so bad along the eastern rim of Los Angeles' suburban ring that regional planners are considering the once unthinkable - an 11-mile tunnel through a mountain range in earthquake country.
Washington Post:
Libby May Have Tried to Mask Cheney's Role — In the opening days of the CIA leak investigation in early October 2003, FBI agents working the case already had in their possession a wealth of valuable evidence. There were White House phone and visitor logs, which clearly documented the administration's contacts with reporters.
Times of London:
Al-Qaeda calls Queen an 'enemy of Islam' — AL-QAEDA has threatened the Queen by naming her as "one of the severest enemies of Islam" in a video message to justify the July bombings in London. — The warning has been passed by MI5 to the Queen's protection team after it obtained …
New York Times:
Relying on Computer, U.S. Seeks to Prove Iran's Nuclear Aims — Iran's uranium conversion plant at Isfahan, where work resumed in August. Work remains suspended at its uranium enrichment plant at Natanz. — In mid-July, senior American intelligence officials called the leaders …
Ian Mather / Scotsman:
Al-Qaeda on defensive as bombs begin to backfire — AFTER years of al-Qaeda terror attacks in which thousands have been killed, many of them Muslims - the people they wish to recruit - voices of dissent are starting to be heard in the Middle East. — As moderate Muslims dare to protest …
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Dean Not Raising Enough $$ For Democrats — If you're a political junkie, here's an important fact to file away; according to the New York Times, under Howard Dean the Democrats are seriously behind the Republicans in the quest to raise vital campaign funds:
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Marcus Mabry / Newsweek:
Autumn of Discontent — The latest NEWSWEEK poll shows serious political trouble for President Bush. — Nov. 12, 2005 - In the wake of the bombings in Jordan by suspected followers of Iraq's Al Qaeda chief Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the indictment of top White House aide I. Lewis (Scooter) …
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Steven R. Weisman / New York Times:
Meeting of Muslim Nations Ends in Discord — MANAMA, Bahrain, Nov. 12 - A meeting of Muslim nations initiated by the Bush administration ended in discord on Saturday after objections by Egypt blocked a final declaration supporting democracy. — The administration did, however …
Townhall.com:
DEAN VS. ITALIANS? — Joseph R. Cerrell, a leading California Democrat and prominent Italian American, has called on Chairman Howard Dean to apologize to Federal Appellate Judge Samuel Alito for Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffers saying the Supreme Court nominee was weak in prosecuting the Mafia.
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
AP Misses Story On French Media Coverage Of Riots — The AP has a report out this afternoon regarding the supposedly cautious approach of the French media on reporting the riots. Elaine Ganley notices the toned-down news coverage of the social unrest and violence, but misses at least …
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