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Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
Lawmakers Reject Immediate Iraq Withdrawal — The House on Friday overwhelmingly rejected calls for an immediate troop withdrawal from Iraq, a vote engineered by the Republicans that was intended to fail. Democrats derided the vote as a political stunt. — "Our troops have become the enemy.
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Charles Babington / Washington Post:
House Rejects Iraq Pullout After GOP Forces a Vote — Differences over policy on the Iraq war ignited an explosion of angry words and personal insults on the House floor yesterday when the chamber's newest member suggested that a decorated war veteran was a coward for calling for an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops.
CNN:
Defense official: Rumsfeld given Iraq withdrawal plan — Plan calls for troops to begin pulling out after December elections — WASHINGTON (CNN) — The top U.S. commander in Iraq has submitted a plan to the Pentagon for withdrawing troops in Iraq, according to a senior defense official.
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Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
Uproar in House as Parties Clash on Iraq Pullout — WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 - Republicans and Democrats shouted, howled and slung insults on the House floor on Friday as a debate over whether to withdraw American troops from Iraq descended into a fury over President Bush's handling of the war …
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Daily Kos:
Ugly GOP Smear Stunt Fails Its Objective — The latest incarnation of the New McCarthyism, the ugly Duncan Hunter stunt - the so-called "Murtha" resolution - blew up in their face. — The NYTimes reported that: … The vote on the rule to bring the Fake Hunter Resolution to the floor …
Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
House GOP Seeks Quick Veto of Iraq Pullout — WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans maneuvered for swift rejection Friday of any notion of immediately pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq, sparking a nasty, sometimes personal debate over the war and a Democratic lawmaker's own call for withdrawal.
Eric Schmitt / New York Times:G.O.P. Tries to Split Democrats With Vote on Iraq War
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Money Politic$ / Kudlow's Money Politic$:Unserious — Any preannounced timetable for troop withdrawal …
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:Democrats Don't Bite GOP-Baited Hook As Iraq Withdrawal Resolution Fails
Kevin Aylward / Wizbang:WITH ALL DUE RESPECT... Democrats - Sen. Harry Reid in particular …
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Michelle Malkin:LIVEBLOGGING THE IRAQ SHOWDOWN
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
DECONSTRUCTING WOODWARD....OK, based on a couple of comments from the previous post, here's a possible scenario that explains why Woodward and his source (Mr. X) came forward only after they had listened in on Patrick Fitzgerald's press conference announcing the indictment of Scooter Libby:
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Viveca Novak / Time:Why Woodward's Source Came Clean
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Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:Bob Woodward's 'Firecracker,' the Second Coming of Judy's Notebook?
BBC:
Index ranks Middle East freedom — There is a wide range of democratisation across the Middle East, a survey by a leading research and advisory firm has found. — The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) ranked 20 countries on 15 indicators of political and civil liberty.
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ABCNEWS:
CIA's Harsh Interrogation Techniques Described — Sources Say Agency's Tactics Lead to Questionable Confessions, Sometimes to Death — Nov. 18, 2005 — Harsh interrogation techniques authorized by top officials of the CIA have led to questionable confessions and the death of a detainee since …
Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:
A BRIEF HISTORY OF A LONG WAR (IRAQ, 1990-2003) — The 2003 invasion of Iraq is likely to be a contested topic in the American discussion for many years to come. As with any fractious issue, opinions will vary and even individual opinions will shift and change with time.
Anne E. Kornblut / New York Times:
DeLay Ex-Aide to Plead Guilty in Lobby Case — WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 - Michael Scanlon, a former top official for Representative Tom DeLay and onetime partner of the lobbyist Jack Abramoff, has agreed to plead guilty in a deal with federal prosecutors, according to his lawyer.
James Bamford / Rolling Stone:
The Man Who Sold the War — Meet John Rendon, Bush's general in the propaganda war — The road to war in Iraq led through many unlikely places. One of them was a chic hotel nestled among the strip bars and brothels that cater to foreigners in the town of Pattaya, on the Gulf of Thailand.
David Nason / The Australian:
US author lauds suicide bombers — ONE of the greatest living US writers has praised terrorists as "very brave people" and used drug culture slang to describe the "amazing high" suicide bombers must feel before blowing themselves up. — Kurt Vonnegut, author of the 1969 anti-war classic Slaughterhouse Five …
