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Froggy / BLACKFIVE:
THE ZARQAWI OPERATION: MURTHA STYLE — This morning on Meet the Cuomo aide, Tim Russert's guest was firebrand Congressman and Congressional Cowardice Caucus Chairman, John Murtha. In addition to reiterating his invocation of the Clinton evacuation from Somalia in 1993 as the example the US …
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MSNBC:
Transcript for June 11 — John Murtha, John Hofmeister, James Mulva, David O'Reilly. — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: The president digs in on Iraq. — (Videotape): — PRES. GEORGE W. BUSH: And we will do what it takes to help them succeed.
Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
Help Wanted — What follows is an excerpt from a June 18 transcript of "Meet the Press," featuring a Tim Russert interview with Rep John Murtha (D-PA) that I'm hoping somebody will please translate for me. Because I'm afraid I don't speak Murtha—which I'd previously assumed was a variant of English …
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Murtha bumbling through "Meet the Press." — Did you watch Congressman John Murtha on "Meet the Press" today? (If not, you can watch it here.) Or read the transcript. Murtha is — in Tim Russert's words — "the most outspoken Democratic critic of the president's handling of the war."
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
In 2003, U.S. Spurned Iran's Offer of Dialogue — Just after the lightning takeover of Baghdad by U.S. forces three years ago, an unusual two-page document spewed out of a fax machine at the Near East bureau of the State Department. It was a proposal from Iran for a broad dialogue with the United States …
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New York Times:
North Koreans Could Be Close to Missile Test — WASHINGTON, June 18 - North Korea appears to have completed fueling a long-range ballistic missile, American officials said Sunday, a move that greatly increases the probability that Pyongyang will go ahead with its first important test launch in eight years.
Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:
'Wash Post' Obtains Shocking Memo from U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Details Increasing Danger and Hardship — NEW YORK The Washington Post has obtained a cable, marked "sensitive," that it says show that just before President Bush left on a surprise trip last Monday to the Green Zone in Baghdad …
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Anne Saunders / delawareonline:
Biden in N.H.: 'I'm running for president' — DOVER, N.H. — Calling the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks a greater shock to the American psyche than Pearl Harbor, Sen. Joe Biden said Saturday that Democrats must demonstrate they can provide for national security to win back the presidency.
Tom Brune / Newsday:
Pardon talk for Libby begins — WASHINGTON — Now that top White House aide Karl Rove is off the hook in the CIA leak probe, President George W. Bush must weigh whether to pardon former vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the only one indicted in the three-year investigation.
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
FDL Book Salon — Lapdogs, Pt. I — The FDL Book Salon is so happy to welcome Peter Daou, who will be leading today's discussion on the first half of Eric Boehlert's book Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush . — CHS — It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us - Lord Byron
Roddy Boyd / New York Post:
SHILL TO HACK — CELEBRATED LIB STRATEGIST HAS SHADY MARKET PAST — June 18, 2006 — Jerome Armstrong, the political strategist who followed a famous Internet fundraising effort for Howard Dean in 2004 with a book on "people-powered politics," has a sordid past as a shill for a worthless dot-com stock.
Charles R. Babcock / Washington Post:
The Project That Wouldn't Die — Over the past decade Vibration & Sound Solutions Ltd., a small Alexandria defense contractor, has received a steady flow of federal contracts to work on "Project M" — $37 million in all from annual "earmarks" by congressional supporters such as Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.).
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New York Times:
A Long Road Ahead in Iraq — Rather than engage in a serious debate about America's future course in Iraq, President Bush and the Republican Congress have again opted for sound bites and partisanship. Yet all the choreographed posturing and a one-week flurry of good news cannot blot …
David Usborne / Independent:
Baghdad blasts mock US claims of Iraqi progress — Following death of Zarqawi and visit by Bush, leaders fail to bring end to cycle of violence — A series of explosions ripped through Baghdad yesterday, killing at least 23 people and dealing a shattering blow to the new Iraqi government's attempts …
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Once Upon a Time
Pachacutec / Firedoglake:
Bursting the Bubble of American Military Empire — Today's Washington Post tells us: … But for me, the money quote is here: … That's asymmetric warfare. Although some asymmetric wars can be won, they cannot be won without the support of local populations.
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