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4:50 AM ET, March 20, 2006

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CNN:
Rumsfeld's Iraq-Germany analogy disputed  —  Former top officials disagree with comparison  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former top officials in two presidential administrations — one Democratic, one Republican — disagreed Sunday with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's characterization …
Discussion: Informed Comment and Solomonia
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Reuters:
Rumsfeld: Leaving Iraq like giving Nazis Germany  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leaving Iraq now would be the same as handing postwar Germany back to the Nazis, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in a column published on Sunday, as retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton called Rumsfeld incompetent and urged him to resign.
Discussion: Liberty Street
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Bush Marks Anniversary, Never Says 'War'  —  WASHINGTON - President Bush marked the anniversary of the Iraq war Sunday by touting the efforts to build democracy there and avoiding any mention of the daily violence that rages three years after he ordered an invasion.  —  The president didn't utter the word "war."
Gateway Pundit:
Three Years of Dragging Democrats Through Their Iraqi Quagmire  —  "We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction... Saddam may well hide his most lethal weapons in mosques, schools and hospitals.  If our forces attempt to strike such targets …
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Christine Hauser / New York Times:
White House Disputes Iraq Is Sinking Into Civil War  —  Three years after the American-led invasion of Iraq, top Bush administration officials today reiterated their upbeat assessment of the American military effort and political progress in the country, insisting that the violence plaguing Iraq did not amount to civil war.
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New York Times:
On Anniversary, Bush and Cheney See Iraq Success  —  WASHINGTON, March 19 — On the third anniversary of a war that they once expected to be over by now, President Bush and senior officials argued Sunday that their strategy was working despite escalating violence in Iraq …
Christopher Swann / MSNBC:   Quiet disapproval in US marks war's anniversary
MSNBC:
Transcript for March 19  —  MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday, March 19, 2003: The war in Iraq  —  begins with shock and awe.  Exactly three years later, millions have voted in free elections and a parliament have been seated.  But 2,300 Americans have been killed, more than 17,000 wounded and injured.
Discussion: CorrenteWire
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Crooks and Liars:   Murtha on Meet the Press
Associated Press:
Afghan Man Faces Death for Allegedly Converting to Christianity  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan man who allegedly converted from Islam to Christianity is being prosecuted in a Kabul court and could be sentenced to death, a judge said Sunday.  —  The defendant, Abdul Rahman …
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Jeff Jacoby / Boston Globe:
Scalia loosens up  —  IT WAS AT a black-tie dinner in Washington in 1985 that Washington Redskins running back John Riggins boozily gave one of his table-mates, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, a memorable piece of advice: ''Come on, Sandy baby, loosen up.  You're too tight.
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Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:   Texas legislators take issue with O'Connor's warnings
John Amato has / Hullabaloo:
Changing Public Opinion  —  John Amato has the video up of Brit Hume having a hyperventilating hissy fit this morning on Fox news at Bill Kristol's assertion that Feingold's motion is good for Democrats.  Wow.  —  Brit seemed unusually concerned that Mara Liasson, Bill Kristol and Juan Williams …
Discussion: Rook's Rant
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Crooks and Liars:
Brit Hume's head explodes
Discussion: Think Progress and Democrats.com
Jonathan Alter / Newsweek:
The Democrats' Disciplinarian  —  Emanuel's approach is giving Democrats the feeling they might not blow it this time.  That's what worries him now: overconfidence.  —  March 27, 2006 issue - Lyndon Johnson was famous for something called "the treatment," where he would loom over cowering colleagues …
sltrib.com:
Anti-war protesters in SLC, elsewhere lament apathy  —  By the time the war protesters began their march Saturday morning in Salt Lake City, only about 50 people had gathered.  Their numbers had swelled to about 200 by noon - and that was with a little high-tech help from a marcher who text-messaged friends to join him.
Fox News:
Transcript: Sen. Dick Durbin on 'FOX News Sunday'  —  The following is a partial transcript of the March 19, 2006, edition of "FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace":  —  "FOX NEWS SUNDAY" HOST CHRIS WALLACE: Joining us now to discuss Iraq and other national security issues is the number …
Hilzoy / Obsidian Wings:
Task Forces 6-26, 121 and 20  —  Today's New York Times has a front page article about torture by a special forces unit called Task Force 6-26 at a secret prison near the Baghdad airport.  I strongly recommend reading the whole thing, but here are some notable excerpts: … And one final excerpt:
Times of London:
Women at war with the mullahs  —  What drives a woman to risk a fatwa by attacking Islam.  Christopher Goodwin reports  —  It would be hard to imagine a place more remote from the violence and turmoil of the Middle East than this quiet cul-de-sac in the southern suburbs of Los Angeles.
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
Ze French Job Security Protests  —  If you want to see what the American economy would look like if it were completely unionized, you don't need to look any further than France.  The economy in France has long been stagnant and the rampant unemployment there is a huge problem:
Washington Post:
A Contractor's Purchase on Power  —  Mitchell Wade's Cultivation of 'Duke' Cunningham Was Just One Part of His Tactical Assault for MZM  —  The consulting work that MZM Inc. received from a Pentagon agency in 2003 was for only $40,000, but to company owner Mitchell J. Wade, the face value was just the beginning.
Discussion: TPM Muckraker
Reuters:
Chavez blasts Bush as "donkey" and "drunkard"  —  CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday lobbed a litany of insults at U.S. President George W. Bush ranging from "donkey" to "drunkard" in response to a White House report branding the left-wing leader a demagogue.
 
 
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
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