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Pentagon Memo Aims to Counter Rumsfeld Critics — WASHINGTON, April 15 — The Defense Department has issued a memorandum to a group of former military commanders and civilian analysts that offers a direct challenge to the criticisms made by retired generals about Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.
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By Michael DeLong / Donald Rumsfeld News:
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR; A General Misunderstanding — AS the No. 2 general at United States Central Command from the Sept. 11 attacks through the Iraq war, I was the daily "answer man" to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. I briefed him twice a day; few people had as much interaction with him as I did during those two years.
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Sister Toldjah, QandO, Don Surber, State of the Day, A Chequer-Board of Nights … and Blue Crab Boulevard
Cori Dauber / Rantingprofs:
Inversion — I haven't had much to say about the retired generals attacking the SecDef, mostly because it's popped just as things have hit the fan around here, but I did notice that the Times was to be commended for a front page article that focused on an angle of the story that was being …
Associated Press:
Myers: Rumsfeld didn't intimidate military — WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld did not intimidate members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during planning of the Iraq war as some retired generals have charged, a former chairman said Sunday. — With Rumsfeld described …
Paul Giblin / eastvalleytribune.com:Busy McCain expresses views on Rumsfeld, immigration, Iraq war
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Publius Rendezvous
Amir Taheri / Telegraph:
The frightening truth of why Iran wants a bomb — Last Monday, just before he announced that Iran had gatecrashed "the nuclear club", President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad disappeared for several hours. He was having a khalvat (tête-à-tête) with the Hidden Imam …
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Philip Sherwell / Telegraph:
'Speak softly, don't argue and slow down' — Loud and brash, in gawdy garb and baseball caps, more than three million of them flock to our shores every year. Shuffling between tourist sites or preparing to negotiate a business deal, they bemoan the failings of the world outside the United States.
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The Gun Toting Liberal
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Docweasel / New England Republican:
The Pretty American — or, how to avoid an international incident for less than $20,000US a day! — Americans tourists have pretty much always been regarded as "ugly" in the sense that we have the temerity to be wealthy enough to afford vacations to foreign countries …
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The Mahablog
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Are We There Yet? — Following up on my post from Friday highlighting Colonel Sam Gardiner's statement on CNN that the US already has troops in iran, I see (via robelicit at kos) that Dennis Kucinich has sent a letter to the president asking if such reports are true. He says:
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New York Times:Bombs That Would Backfire — WHITE HOUSE spokesmen have played …
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TigerHawk, Dinocrat, Just World News, The Heretik, Billmon, PoliBlog, Booman Tribune, Economist's View, This Modern World, Alternate Brain and PrairiePundit
Armed Liberal / Winds of Change.NET:
Hiltzik of the LA Times - Unethical Or Just Ignorant? — I've had fun reading Michael Hiltzik in the past, mostly because he's an interesting case of a major newspaper trying on the blog form. He manages, I think to combine the worst of both - the overweening arrogance of the MSM and the casual …
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Wretchard / The Belmont Club:
Below the fold — Three very interesting reports from the Middle East. The first, from the Jerusalem Post describes an Israeli proposal to swap Jonathan Pollard for .... Marwan Barghouti. … The second report is even more interesting, and also from the Jersualem Post.
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Crooks and Liars:
Joe Klein: Nukes should be on the table — Joe Klein: "Nukes should be on the table" — Joe Klein started off today on "THIS WEEK," sounding fairly reasonable in the discussion about Iran and then veered off into neocon, kool-aid drinking lunacy. George Stephanopoulos was even caught off guard by Klein's statements.
Mike Snyder / Houston Chronicle:
FEMA deemed these homes habitable — Labeling Katrina homes as livable makes owners ineligible for more aid, but officials here call structures unfit — A New Orleans house flattened but for a concrete staircase on a crumbling facade was among many storm-ravaged structures …
Fawaz Turki / Washington Post:
How to Lose Your Job at a Saudi Newspaper — I was unceremoniously fired this month by my Saudi newspaper, a leading English-language daily called Arab News. — It didn't matter that I had been the senior columnist on the op-ed page for nine years or that my work was quoted widely …
Stephanie McCrummen / Washington Post:
Redefining Property Values — By Design, Status Seekers and Tree-Huggers Don't Have to Commune — The survey went to thousands of people who'd called a number on highway billboards announcing that Ladera Ranch, a new planned community in Orange County, Calif., was coming soon.
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
The Battle for Baghdad II, The Three Block War & Iraq Ops — The London Times reports plans are in the works for "the second liberation of Baghdad" after the new government forms; operational developments in Iraq — The political process remains a major front in the war in Iraq …
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Unqualified Offerings
Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
Keeping Al-Qaeda in His Grip — Al-Zawahiri Presses Ideology, Deepens Rifts Among Islamic Radicals — CAIRO — In January 2003, one of the two most wanted men in the world couldn't contain his frustration. From a hiding place probably somewhere in South Asia, he tapped out two lengthy e-mails …
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