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A Good Leak — President Bush declassified some of the intelligence he used to decide on war in Iraq. Is that a scandal? — PRESIDENT BUSH was right to approve the declassification of parts of a National Intelligence Estimate about Iraq three years ago in order to make clear why he had believed …
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SusanG / Daily Kos:
Joe Wilson Responds to Washington Post Editorial — The world awakened this morning to a puzzle of ridiculousness: a Washington Post op/ed that can only be described as a hit piece on Joseph Wilson's "absurdly over-examined visit" (the editorial's words, certainly not mine) to Niger …
Doyle McManus / Los Angeles Times:
Controversy May Sap Bush's Credibility — His alleged role in the scandal might hurt his image and erode public support for the Iraq war. — WASHINGTON — Ever since he began running for president, George W. Bush has told Americans that he is a "plain-spoken man," a leader who would never play games with words.
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Does Fred Hiatt Even Read the Washington Post? — Update: Folks are gathering over at the post.blog to make their feelings on the subject known. — For years now the GOP machine has succeeded in strong-arming the Washington Post into legitimizing their propaganda, dribbling …
Eriposte / The Left Coaster:
A Washington Post Editor Caught Brazenly Lying: When is this going to stop? — The Washington Post has a deeply fraudulent editorial defending Bush's involvement in the NIE leak. It's not just that they get the facts wrong, but by a fair accounting this editorial involves deliberate lying …
Newsweek:
The Leaker in Chief? — Is he a CEO who stays above the fray? Or did he give the go-ahead to strike back at critics over prewar intel? A presidential mystery. — Court filings indicate that Libby, right, Cheney's former chief of staff, told a grand jury that Bush, center, had authorized him to leak intelligence information
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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:WaPo Shocker: Editorial Supports President Bush on Recent Leak Allegations
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Martin Peretz / The New Republic:
JOHN KERRY AND JESUS: — Continuing his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, John F. Kerry addressed (by telephone) a conference convened by that racist hustler and prevaricator Al Sharpton who won, if I'm not mistaken, exactly one delegate at the party convention in 2004.
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Oliver North / Washington Times:
Recipe for disaster — Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, insists on proving that he can't be trusted. He made his political debut in 1970, joining the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, then accused American troops of war crimes in Vietnam — and tried to deny he had done so.
Garry Wills / New York Times:
Christ Among the Partisans — THERE is no such thing as a "Christian politics." If it is a politics, it cannot be Christian. Jesus told Pilate: "My reign is not of this present order. If my reign were of this present order, my supporters would have fought against my being turned over to the Jews.
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Crooks and Liars:
Sy Hersh on the "Iran war plans" — Sy Hersh on the "Iran war plans" — Sy Hersh was on "Late Edition", and talked about his new article in the New Yorker with Wolf Blitzer about serious war plans being drawn up against Iran-that includes nukes-which is causing military leaders to say they'll resign.
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:Hersh: Bush Plans On War With Iran UsingTactical Nukes (UPDATED)
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Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns and Money:
Should We Ban Abortion For Non-Affluent Women? That Is The Only Question — This is, alas, not from a pessimistic feminist sci-fi novel: … What we have in El Salvador, then, is an actually principled forced pregnancy legal regime. This framework does not have the procedural inequities …
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Lieut. General Greg Newbold / Time:
"Why I Think Rumsfeld Must Go" — A military insider sounds off against the war and the "zealots" who pushed it … In 1971, the rock group The Who released the antiwar anthem Won't Get Fooled Again. To most in my generation, the song conveyed a sense of betrayal by the nation's leaders …
Helen Thomas / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Want more Bush? Elect McCain — WASHINGTON — In his bid for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, Sen. John McCain is moving to the right. — The Arizona Republican, who failed to win the Republican presidential nomination in 2000, is the most visible Republican on television …
Jill Abramson / New York Times:
When Will We Stop Saying 'First Woman to _____'? — IT was the Platonic ideal of the ladies' lunch. There was chicken salad, parfait and blue Tiffany gift boxes. There was the first woman president, her friend Louise and, though we did not know it for certain, the first female solo network news anchor.
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
No easy answers on immigration conundrum — Here's my immigration "compromise": We need to regularize the situation of the 298 million non-undocumented residents of the United States. Right now, we get a lousy deal compared with the 15 million fine upstanding members of the Undocumented American community.
Anne Hull / Washington Post:
CALL TO DUTY — In a Community Where Many Roads Lead to the Military, Deciding Whether to Enlist Becomes a Turning Point — Blake Johnson is almost 18. Tan and muscular, he plays third base for the Clarkdale High School Bulldogs. He is a B student who says "Yes, sir" when his coach corrects his batting stance.
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