memeorandum @ 8:55 AM ET, March 1, 2006

8:55 AM ET, March 1, 2006

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A MANIFESTO AGAINST ISLAMISM — Danish reader P.H.N. sends an important document published today in the Jyllands-Posten from 12 brave intellectuals: — MANIFESTO: Together facing the new totalitarianism — After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new totalitarian global threat: Islamism.

Discussion: All Things Beautiful, FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog, Stop The ACLU, Slapstick Politics, Middle Earth Journal, House Of The Dog and The Daily Brief

Atlas Shrugs:
A MANIFESTO SLAMS ISLAMIC TOTALITARIANISM

Discussion: bluestarchronicles …

B. Preston / JunkYardBlog: Militant Islam and Children

Stars & Stripes:

Poll of troops in Iraq sees 72% support for withdrawal within a year — WASHINGTON — Seventy-two percent of troops on the ground in Iraq think U.S. military forces should get out of the country within a year, according to a Zogby poll released Tuesday. — The survey of 944 troops …

Discussion: Unqualified Offerings, The Huffington Post, Flopping Aces, Running Scared, Once Upon a Time, Vichy Democrats, Alternate Brain and Decision '08

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Editor and Publisher:
Kristof: Poll Finds U.S. Troops in Iraq Urge Pullout

Discussion: Generation Why? and AMERICAblog

Financial Times:
American troops want swift pull-out from Iraq

Discussion: The Next Hurrah

Bruce Kesler / Democracy Project:
How reliable is Zogby poll of military in Iraq?

Discussion: Mystery Pollster, ParaPundit, Atlas Shrugs and The Officers' Club

Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post:

Shiites Told: Leave Home Or Be Killed — Sunnis Force Evictions As Iraq Tensions Grow — BAGHDAD, Feb. 28 — Salim Rashid, 34, a Shiite laborer in an overwhelmingly Sunni Arab village 20 miles north of Baghdad, received his eviction notice Friday from a man at the door with a rocket launcher.

Discussion: Editor and Publisher, Legal Fiction, The Washington Monthly and Oliver Willis

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Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post:
Pressure Seen on Probes at Baghdad Morgue

Discussion: The American Street

Edward Wong / New York Times:
At Least 75 Dead in String of Attacks in Iraq

Discussion: Democrat Taylor Marsh …, firedoglake and Prairie Weather

Knight Ridder:

Intelligence agencies warned about growing local insurgency in late 2003 — WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence agencies repeatedly warned the White House beginning more than two years ago that the insurgency in Iraq had deep local roots, was likely to worsen and could lead to civil war …

Discussion: Bring it On!, Booman Tribune, The Moderate Voice, PoliBlog, The Road To Surfdom, Informed Comment, The Washington Monthly, Washington Times and The Mahablog

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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Rack and Ruin — The Supreme Court considers Anna Nicole's surprisingly real claims.

Discussion: UNCoRRELATED

Omar / IRAQ THE MODEL:

The trial just got interesting. — I was just about to leave home to work when I heard a big bang... Uh, oh...I won't be able to reach the clinic today, I told Mohammed. — The explosion was probably less than a mile away so I knew the roads around us would be soon blocked.

Discussion: The Belmont Club and Gateway Pundit

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Bassem Mroue / Associated Press: Prosecutors: Saddam Approved Executions

Peter Baker / Washington Post:

GOP Unease Spreads to Security Issues — Port Deal Among Challenges to What Has Been Bush's Strength — The first heading on the issues page of Rep. Mark Foley's Web site brags that he is "one of President Bush's strongest supporters in Congress." The Florida Republican voted …

Discussion: NY Daily News, The Moderate Voice, The American Street, The Left Coaster and Bark Bark Woof Woof

Hindrocket / Power Line:

FANTASY AT THE UN, AND IN PAKISTAN — The New York Times reports on a United Nations conference in Qatar that addressed—productively, no doubt—the Danish cartoon controversy. — The conference sounds like a travesty. Here is the appalling Bishop Tutu: … "Imagine"? "Imagine"?

Discussion: The Moderate Voice

Washington Post:

Gonzales Seeks to Clarify Testimony on Spying — Extent of Eavesdropping May Go Beyond NSA Work — Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales appeared to suggest yesterday that the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance operations may extend beyond the outlines that the president acknowledged in mid-December.

Discussion: Unclaimed Territory, democracyarsenal.org and TalkLeft

Victor Davis Hanson / Opinion Journal:

At War With Ourselves — We're winning in Iraq. Let's not lose at home. — Last week the golden dome of the Askariya shrine in Samarra was blown apart. Sectarian riots followed, and reprisals and deaths ensued. Thugs and criminals came out of the woodwork to foment further violence.

Discussion: Dean's World and Blogs for Bush

Shankar Vedantam / Washington Post:

Veterans Report Mental Distress — About a Third Returning From Iraq Seek Help — More than one in three soldiers and Marines who have served in Iraq later sought help for mental health problems, according to a comprehensive snapshot by Army experts of the psyches of men and women returning …

Discussion: Left I on the News, Democrat Taylor Marsh … and Just a Bump in the Beltway

Mark Pazniokas / courant.com:

Shays Endorsing Lieberman — It's been the subject of whispered conversations among top Republican officials for the past month. Now, U.S. Rep. Chris Shays, R-4th District, has let slip the secret: GOP officials have discussed cross-endorsing Democratic Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman this fall.

Discussion: LamontBlog and Ex-Donkey Blog

Associated Press:

President Bush Makes Surprise Visit to Afghanistan — KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — President Bush made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Wednesday, flying here secretly to support its fledging government in the face of rising violence from al-Qaida and Taliban militants.

Discussion: Outside The Beltway