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President Outlines Strategy for Victory in Iraq — In Focus: Training Iraqi Security Forces — In Focus: National Strategy for Victory in Iraq — THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thanks, please be seated. Please be seated. Thanks for the warm welcome. It's good to be back at the Naval Academy.
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Think Progress:
Rapid Response: Deconstructing the "National Strategy for Victory in Iraq" — After two-and-a-half years and 2,110 U.S. troop fatalities, the Bush administration released what it calls a "National Strategy for Victory in Iraq" (NSVI). The problem is, it's not a new strategy for success in Iraq; it's a public relations document.
Daniela Deane / Washington Post:
Bush Unveils New Iraq Strategy in Document — President Bush, facing increasing impatience with the war in Iraq, went on the offensive Wednesday, releasing a detailed strategy plan ahead of a speech on the war in an attempt to show the country the administration has a clear strategy for victory in Iraq.
Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
Bush Maps Out Iraq War Strategy — ANNAPOLIS, Md. - President Bush, facing growing doubts about his war strategy, said Wednesday that Iraqi troops are increasingly taking the lead in battle but that "this will take time and patience." He refused to set a timetable for withdrawing U.S. forces.
Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
"U.S. Military Covertly Pays to Run Stories in Iraqi Press" (UPDATED) — From the LA Times: … Wow. If that's the standard for propaganda, we could've saved the information op folks the trouble of writing new copy and just reprinted stories directly out of the LA Times...
Washington Post:
Transcript: President Bush's Speech on the War on Terrorism — Delivered at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. — SPEAKER: GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES — [*] BUSH: Thank you. Thank you. Please be seated. Thanks for the warm welcome.
Los Angeles Times:
U.S. Military Covertly Pays to Run Stories in Iraqi Press — Troops write articles presented as news reports. Some officers object to the practice. — WASHINGTON — As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written …
Christine Hauser / New York Times:
Bush Again Rejects Calls for a Withdrawal Timetable in Iraq — President Bush today laid out what he called a strategy for victory in Iraq, saying that American troops will not be withdrawn in response to "artificial timetables set by politicians in Washington" but will remain deployed …
BillHobbs.com:
LA Times Ignores Key Points of Bush's Iraq Speech — The Los Angeles Times story on President Bush's very fine speech today to graduates at the U.S. Naval Academy, outlining the administration's strategy in Iraq, is filled with omissions and spin. Here are just two examples:
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
THE WHITE HOUSE has released its Iraq strategy document. I think it owes a bit of a debt to Steven Den Beste. But hey, you can't always rely on bloggers to explain the war plan. — UPDATE: Some people are asking what's new about this strategy. The answer — as Jon Henke notes — is nothing, really.
New York Times:
White House Releases Outline of Its Strategy for Iraq — WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 - President Bush today is putting forward for the first time a public version of what the White House calls a comprehensive strategy for victory in Iraq. — In a 35-page document released by the White House this morning …
Daniela Deane / Washington Post:Bush Releases Detailed Strategy Plan
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Stephen Green / Vodkapundit:Air Battle — The LA Times reports on the US propaganda effort in Iraq:
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Joe Lieberman / Opinion Journal:
Our Troops Must Stay — America can't abandon 27 million Iraqis to 10,000 terrorists. — I have just returned from my fourth trip to Iraq in the past 17 months and can report real progress there. More work needs to be done, of course, but the Iraqi people are in reach of a watershed transformation …
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Patrick D. Healy / New York Times:
Senator Clinton Calls for Withdrawal From Iraq to Begin in 2006 — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, in her strongest statement on the war in Iraq since visiting the country in 2003, yesterday defended her vote to authorize military action but harshly criticized President Bush's leadership …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Rumsfeld's War On 'Insurgents' — Last weekend, while other Americans were watching football and eating leftover turkey, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld ended the Iraqi insurgency. — It was easy, really: He declared that the insurgents would, henceforth, no longer be called insurgents.
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Screwy Hoolie / Scrutiny Hooligans:
Get Your Vote Counted — House Resolution 550, titled the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act, "amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require a voter-verified permanent paper record or hard copy under title III of such Act, and for other purposes".
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Michelle Malkin:
THEY DON'T SUPPORT OUR TROOPS — Lots of blog buzz over MoveOn.org's latest, noxious anti-war propaganda. First, check out the video here (in Quicktime). — Notice this? — Best of the Web reported yesterday on a sharp-eyed Army captain's reaction to that scene in MoveOn's fund-raising ploy:
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Reid: Osama bin Dead — Compiled by Pajamas Media staff in Barcelona — Was Osama bin Laden killed in last month's earthquake in Pakistan? So said Senate minority leader Harry Reid to a Nevada TV station (video here). More than the news itself that the No. 1 Most Wanted could be dead -it's …
