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Washington Post:
Iraq's Deadly Surge Claims 1,300 — Morgue Figure Eclipses Other Counts Since Shrine Attack — BAGHDAD, Feb. 27 — Grisly attacks and other sectarian violence unleashed by last week's bombing of a Shiite shrine have killed more than 1,300 Iraqis, making the past few days the deadliest …
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Reuters:FACTBOX-Developments in Iraq, Feb. 27
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Zogby:
U.S. Troops in Iraq: 72% Say End War in 2006 — Le Moyne College/Zogby Poll shows just one in five troops want to heed Bush call to stay "as long as they are needed" — While 58% say mission is clear, 42% say U.S. role is hazy — Plurality believes Iraqi insurgents are mostly homegrown
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treas.gov:
EXON-FLORIO PROVISION — The United States has traditionally welcomed Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and provided foreign investors fair, equitable and nondiscriminatory treatment with few limited exceptions designed to protect national security. The Exon-Florio provision is implemented within …
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Greg Sheffield / NewsBusters.org:
CBS Slants Bush Poll in Favor of Democrats — In its classic "fair and balanced" tradition, CBS slanted in favor of Democrats its poll that found Bush has a 34 percent approval rating and a 59 percent disapproval rating, an all-time high for a CBS poll. — On the bottom of the PDF version of the poll …
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Michael Freund / Jerusalem Post:
Exclusive: Dubai ports firm enforces Israel boycott — The parent company of a Dubai-based firm at the center of a political storm in the US over the purchase of American ports participates in the Arab boycott against Israel, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
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Drudge Report:
BUSH CHEERS DECLINE OF MAINSTREAM MEDIA, RISE OF ALTERNATIVE PRESS — President Bush, for the first time, is hailing the rise of the alternative media and the decline of the mainstream media, which he now says "conspired" to harm him with forged documents. — "I find it interesting …
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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Bush, Speaking Up Against Bigotry — There are times when George Bush sorely disappoints. Just when you might expect him to issue a malapropian explanation, pander to his base or simply not have a clue about what he is talking about, he does something so right, so honest and, yes …
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Supreme Court Set to Weigh Central Election-Law Issues — WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 — The most pressing and unsettled questions in election law are those that concern the role of money, the role of race and the role of partisanship. The Supreme Court will take up all three this week.
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Latest Iraqi war casualty — conservative belief in "personal responsibility" — To the list of conservative principles which are being tossed aside like yesterday's trash in order to defend George Bush, let us add the ostensible virtue of "personal responsibility."
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Coast Guard Saw 'Intelligence Gaps' on Ports — The U.S. Coast Guard, in charge of reviewing security at ports operated by a Dubai maritime company, warned the Bush administration it could not rule out that the company's assets could be used for terrorist operations, according to a document released yesterday by a Senate committee.
Opinion Journal:
Meathead Economics — Hollywood liberals drive productive Californians to leave the state. — It takes hard work to drive anyone away from California's sunshine and scenic vistas, but politicians in Sacramento have been up to the task. — The latest Census Bureau data indicate that …
Nina Bernstein / New York Times:
U.S. Is Settling Detainee's Suit in 9/11 Sweep — Ehab Elmaghraby in Alexandria, Egypt, with his parents in April 2004. Mr. Elmaghraby, detained after 9/11, said he settled his lawsuit reluctantly. — The federal government has agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit brought …
Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
Veterans May Face Health Care Cuts in 2008 — WASHINGTON - At least tens of thousands of veterans with non-critical medical issues could suffer delayed or even denied care in coming years to enable President Bush to meet his promise of cutting the deficit in half — if the White House is serious about its proposed budget.
Times of London:
We should fear Holland's silence — Islamists are stifling debate in what was Europe's freest country, says Douglas Murray — 'Would you write the name you'd like to use here, and your real name there?" asked the girl at reception. I had just been driven to a hotel in the Hague.
New York Times:
Americans Are Cautiously Open to Gas Tax Rise, Poll Shows — Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to a higher federal gasoline tax, but a significant number would go along with an increase if it reduced global warming or made the United States less dependent on foreign oil, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
Texas Nonprofit Is Cleared After GOP-Prompted Audit — Group Says Probe Was 'Political Retaliation' by DeLay Allies — The Internal Revenue Service recently audited the books of a Texas nonprofit group that was critical of campaign spending by former House majority leader Tom DeLay …
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Michael J. Totten:
The Utah of the Middle East — SULEIMANIYA, IRAQ - When I first saw the city of Suleimaniya, in Northern Iraq, during daylight I was startled. Out my hotel room window was a straight street, the first such street I had seen in almost half a year. That probably doesn't sound like a big deal.
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Paul Hackett / Philadelphia Inquirer:
Culture of careerism scuttled a political bid — When I got back from Iraq last year on March 18 after a seven-month combat tour with the First Marine Division in exotic cities like Ramadi and Fallujah, my wife arranged for a small group of friends and family to meet me at the Cincinnati airport.
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Guardian:
Secret papers reveal German spies passed intelligence on Iraq to US before invasion — · Berlin denies claim but faces calls for inquiry — · Documents cast cloud over anti-war stance — Germany's government faced renewed pressure to order an inquiry yesterday …
