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Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
Lacking Biolabs, Trailers Carried Case for War — Administration Pushed Notion of Banned Iraqi Weapons Despite Evidence to Contrary — On May 29, 2003, 50 days after the fall of Baghdad, President Bush proclaimed a fresh victory for his administration in Iraq: Two small trailers captured …
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Confederate Yankee:
Well, the Smell is Certainly Biological... The Washington Post, which within the past week blasted President Bush for declassifying a story to defend false allegations by Joe Wilson, collected classified information of its own through anonymous sources and leaked it on page one Wednesday, declaring:
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
The Minority Report — The Washington Post runs a deceptive and dishonest report about the evaluation of the Iraqi trailers that had been identified as biological weapons labs prior to the invasion in March 2003. Their front-page story announces breathlessly that the Bush administration ignored …
Michael Tomasky / TAPPED:
DEAN CALLS FOR DECLASSIFICATION RE WASHPOST PIECE. DNC Chairman Howard Dean this morning called on the Bush administration to declassify a 2003 Defense Intelligence Agency-sponsored report that undercuts a key administration claim about Saddam Hussein-era Iraqi weapons.
New York Times:
Iran Reports Big Advance in Enrichment of Uranium — TEHRAN, April 11 — Iran announced Tuesday that its nuclear engineers had advanced to a new phase in the enrichment of uranium, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and a series of the country's ruling clerics declared that the nation would now speed ahead …
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Bloomberg:
Iran Could Produce Nuclear Bomb in 16 Days, U.S. Says (Update1) — April 12 (Bloomberg) — Iran, which is defying United Nations Security Council demands to cease its nuclear program, may be capable of making a nuclear bomb within 16 days if it goes ahead with plans to install thousands …
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Juan / Informed Comment:
Iran Can Now Make glowing Mickey Mouse Watches — Despite all the sloppy and inaccurate headlines about Iran "going nuclear," the fact is that all President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday was that it had enriched uranium to a measely 3.5 percent, using a bank of 180 centrifuges hooked up so that they "cascade."
Ali Akbar Dareini / Associated Press:
Iran says it's moving toward large-scale uranium enrichment
Iran says it's moving toward large-scale uranium enrichment
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Josh Gerstein / New York Sun:
Fitzgerald Retreats on a Claim Critics Had Used Against Bush — In a startling move, a special prosecutor investigating the leak of a CIA operative's identity retreated yesterday from an assertion that news outlets and critics of the administration seized on as evidence that President Bush …
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Diana Walsh / San Francisco Chronicle:
Military recruiters, confronted by crowd, leave campus job fair — Anti-war protesters at university block doors to building — Four military recruiters hastily fled a job fair Tuesday morning at UC Santa Cruz after a raucous crowd of student protesters blocked an entrance to the building …
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Carrie Sheffield / The Hill:
Norquist seeks trademark on 'K Street Project' name — Conservative activist Grover Norquist is seeking a trademark on "K Street Project," saying Democrats and Majority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) have wrongfully acquired the term to describe unethical practices that have nothing to do with his organization.
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Richard Lindzen / Opinion Journal:
Climate of Fear — Global-warming alarmists intimidate dissenting scientists into silence. — There have been repeated claims that this past year's hurricane activity was another sign of human-induced climate change. Everything from the heat wave in Paris to heavy snows in Buffalo …
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New York Times:
Company Finds Clinton Useful, and Vice Versa — Corning Inc., one of upstate New York's largest and oldest employers, has supported Republican candidates for so long that its chairman once joked that it had not raised money for a Democrat since 1812. — But since Hillary Rodham Clinton …
W. Thomas Smith, Jr / Townhall.com:
Dispelling myths about American soldiers — Myths abound when it comes to military personnel in the modern American armed forces. Most are in some way related to recruiting new soldiers, who's fighting, and who's dying. — Five of the biggest myths include:
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Amy Har / New York Times:
Seeking Ancestry in DNA Ties Uncovered by Tests — Alan Moldawer's adopted twins, Matt and Andrew, had always thought of themselves as white. But when it came time for them to apply to college last year, Mr. Moldawer thought it might be worth investigating the origins of their slightly tan-tinted skin …
People:
Oprah Winfrey: Wealth Is 'A Good Thing' — By Stephen M. Silverman with Susan Mandel — Oprah Winfrey is a rich woman - and she's got no problem with that. — Speaking in Baltimore on Monday at a fundraiser for Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School, Winfrey told the audience, "I have lots of things, like all these Manolo Blahniks.
Edward Wong / New York Times:
Deaths of U.S. Soldiers Climb Again in Iraq — BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 12 - The death toll for American troops is rising steeply this month, with the military today announcing the deaths of two more soldiers, bringing the number of troops killed this month to at least 33.
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New York Times:
At the White House, Engaging Iran With Words Over Action — WASHINGTON, April 11 — One of President Bush's most senior foreign policy advisers spoke with unusual candor last week about the quandary the White House faces as it tries to confront Iran. — "The problem is that our policy …
Bob Burnett / The Huffington Post:
George Bush - Failed Christian, Failed CEO — At his March 21st press conference President Bush admitted that the war in Iraq will continue as long as he is in office. Yet, before the invasion he thought that the occupation would be a cakewalk. Given his record, why do Americans believe anything that Dubya says?