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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 …
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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 — On the third anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, the US capital's historic protest venues were surprisingly serene on Sunday. Outside the White House tourists had their pictures taken next to a cardboard cut-out of the president …
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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."
johannhari.com:
After three years, after 150,000 dead, why I was wrong about Iraq
After three years, after 150,000 dead, why I was wrong about Iraq
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Washington Post:
GOP Struggles To Define Its Message for 2006 Elections — Republican efforts to craft a policy and political agenda to carry the party into the midterm elections have stumbled repeatedly as GOP leaders face widespread disaffection and disagreement within the ranks.
The Prowler / American Spectator:
Defiantly Shaky — Sen. Harry Reid told reporters last week that it might be true that American voters don't know where Democrats stand, but that they will know by November. — That may be a little too late for undecided voters, which is why both House and Senate Democrats …
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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.
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Sayed and de Man at Yale — The campus that ran off a Nazi propagandist today welcomes one from the Taliban. — Three weeks after the New York Times revealed that former Taliban official Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi is attending classes at Yale, many at the university still have little to say about the controversy.
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Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
Plight Deepens for Black Men, Studies Warn — BALTIMORE — Black men in the United States face a far more dire situation than is portrayed by common employment and education statistics, a flurry of new scholarly studies warn, and it has worsened in recent years even as an economic boom …
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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.
William Saletan / Washington Post:
Curse of the Young Old — The bad news is, we're living longer. — Don't get me wrong. I hope you have a long and happy life. I just hope your kids don't end up paying one-fifth to one-third of their incomes to subsidize your retirement and mine. Because that's what awaits them …
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CBS News:
Rewriting The Science — (CBS) As a government scientist, James Hansen is taking a risk. He says there are things the White House doesn't want you to hear but he's going to say them anyway. — Hansen is arguably the world's leading researcher on global warming. He's the head of NASA's top institute studying the climate.
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.
Guardian:
'Iraq was awash in cash. We played football with bricks of $100 bills' — At the beginning of the Iraq war, the UN entrusted $23bn of Iraqi money to the US-led coalition to redevelop the country. With the infrastructure of the country still in ruins, where has all that money gone?
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Matthew Schofield / Knight Ridder:
Iraqi police report details civilians' deaths at hands of U.S. troops — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi police have accused American troops of executing 11 people, including a 75-year-old woman and a 6-month-old infant, in the aftermath of a raid last Wednesday on a house about 60 miles north of Baghdad.