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White House:
Press Conference by the President — White House Conference Center Briefing Room — THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Please be seated. Fancy digs you got here. Thanks for your hospitality. It's good to visit with you. I look forward to taking some of your questions.
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CNN:
Poll: Opposition to Iraq war at all-time high — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Opposition among Americans to the war in Iraq has reached a new high, with only about a third of respondents saying they favor it, according to a poll released Monday. — Just 35 percent of 1,033 adults polled say they favor …
Daniela Deane / Washington Post:
Bush Warns It Would Be 'Disaster' to Leave Iraq — President Bush said Monday the United States would lose "our soul as a nation" if it gave up on the Iraq war now, warning it would be a "disaster" if U.S. troops left before the new Iraqi government can control the country.
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Faiz / Think Progress:
Bush Now Says What He Wouldn't Say Before War: Iraq Had 'Nothing' To Do With 9/11 — President Bush was in the midst of explaining how the attacks of 9/11 inspired his "freedom agenda" and the attacks on Iraq until a reporter, Ken Herman of Cox News, interrupted to ask what Iraq had to do with 9/11.
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Asa Eslocker Reports / The Blotter:
Is Tomorrow Doomsday? — Asa Eslocker Reports: — While no extra safeguards are in place, U.S. law enforcement are not ignoring the possible significance of tomorrow's date, August 22, a date that marks an important historic event on the Islamic calendar.
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Little Green Footballs:
Ahmadinejad: "The Iranian People Will Force You to Bow and Surrender" — From Iranian TV, August 13, 2006. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.)
George Jahn / Associated Press:
Iran denies inspectors access to site — VIENNA, Austria - Iran has turned away U.N. inspectors wanting to examine its underground nuclear site in an apparent violation of the Nonproliferation Treaty, diplomats and U.N. officials said Monday. — The officials, who spoke on condition …
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Cameron Abadi / Spiegel Online:
Ignoring the Propaganda in Tehran — The government of Iran appears set to reject the European incentive package on Tuesday. A show of strength? A diplomatic blunder? Iranians themselves don't know what to think. — "No, don't worry. We are peaceful people," Arash says.
Washington Post:
President Bush Holds a News Conference — SPEAKER: GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES — BUSH: Thank you all. Please be seated. — Fancy digs you got here. — Thanks for your hospitality. It's good to visit with you. I look forward to taking some of your questions.
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Patrick Bishop / Telegraph:
Hizbollah pushes past guards in show of force — Hizbollah mourners on a funeral parade shoved aside anti-tank barriers at a United Nations base in Lebanon yesterday in a demonstration of their new political strength. — The party had been told it would be allowed to bury three "martyrs" …
Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
British Authorities Charge 11 in Bomb Plot — Authorities Find Bomb Equipment and "Martyrdom" Tapes — British authorities today announced terrorism and murder-conspiracy charges against 11 people in the alleged plot to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners, saying their searches since Aug. 10 …
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CNN:
Judge drops Padilla terror charge — Padilla, codefendants faced double jeopardy, ruling says — MIAMI, Florida (CNN) — A federal judge in Miami on Monday dismissed a terror count against Jose Padilla, the U.S. citizen once identified as a "dirty bomb" suspect and detained as an "enemy combatant."
New York Times:
Europeans Delay Decision on Role Inside Lebanon — The ruins of southern Beirut Sunday, after being pounded by Israeli airstrikes for a month. Arab nations promised reconstruction aid. — The shaky, United Nations-brokered cease-fire in Lebanon suffered another blow on Sunday …
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Associated Press:
Calendars show Armitage met reporter — WASHINGTON - Then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage met with Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward in mid-June 2003, the same time the reporter has testified an administration official talked to him about CIA employee Valerie Plame.
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Martin Asser / BBC:
Dangers await Lebanon returnees — When Um Ali Mihdi returned to her home in the southern Lebanese city of Bint Jbeil two days ago, she found a 1,000lb (450kg) Israeli bomb lying unexploded in her living room. — The shell is huge, bigger than the young boy pushed forward to stand reluctantly next …
MSNBC:
Sec/Def Lieberman? — Plus Steely Dan, Hot Tuna and more — Frank Rich writes here of these same folks who gave us the catastrophe that is Iraq and cheered Israel toward its folly who now "apoplectically fret that Mr. Lamont's victory signals the hijacking of the Democratic Party by the far left …
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