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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.
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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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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Robert Scheer / truthdig.com:
Now Powell Tells Us — THE PRESIDENT played the scoundrel — even the best of his minions went along with the lies — and when a former ambassador dared to tell the truth, the White House initiated what Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald calls "a plan to discredit, punish or seek revenge against Mr. Wilson."
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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Kos / Daily Kos:
CA-50: Turnout — Democratic turnout in the early contests has been abysmal. CA-50 is looking no different. … And from the National Journal: … The Democratic leadership thinks that the GOP implosion will ipso facto translate to Democratic victories in November.
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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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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 …
DefenseLINK:
Presenter: Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and Chariman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Peter Pace — DoD News Briefing with Secretary Rumsfeld and Gen. Pace from the Pentagon — SEC. RUMSFELD: Good afternoon, folks. — Reports from the military services, including the Army …
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 …
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?
Democrat Taylor Marsh Blogs Politics …:
The Bravest Woman in the Whole World … Her name is Wafa Sultan. She's an Arab-American Psychologist. — The video was filmed on February 21, 2006, by Al-Jazeera (Qatar). It is some of the most remarkable footage you will ever see. It's been covered some places …
David Ignatius:
An Iranian Missile Crisis? — The emerging confrontation between the United States and Iran is "the Cuban missile crisis in slow motion," argues Graham Allison, the Harvard University professor who wrote the classic study of President John F. Kennedy's 1962 showdown with the Soviet Union that narrowly averted nuclear war.