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11:15 AM ET, August 21, 2006

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Gregory / The Belgravia Dispatch:
LIEBERMAN AND RUMSFELD  —  I've really got no dog in the whole Lieberman/Lamont fight.  I live in Manhattan, not Connecticut, and this blog has never focused much on senatorial races and the like.  So I wasn't going to write about it much, if any.  But today I hear that Lieberman has called for Don Rumsfeld's resignation.
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Associated Press:
Lieberman calls for Rumsfeld to quit  —  WASHINGTON - Sen. Joe Lieberman, attacked by fellow Democrats as being too close to the White House on the Iraq War, on Sunday called on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign but said the United States cannot "walk away" from the Iraqis.
Samir Sumaida'ie / Washington Post:
A Call to Support Democracy
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere
Michael van der Galien / The Moderate Voice:
Kerry Blasts Lieberman
Herb Keinon / Jerusalem Post:
Annan to give UNIFIL 'teeth'  —  UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is expected to recommend Monday that the rules of engagement of the enhanced UNIFIL force to be deployed in Lebanon include opening fire on Hizbullah where necessary, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:   UNIFIL Teeth Sharpened?
Reuters:   Olmert asks Italy to lead UN force
John M. Broder / New York Times:
McCain Mines Elite of G.O.P. for 2008 Team  —  Senator John McCain is locking up a cast of top-shelf Republican strategists, policy experts, fund-raisers and donors, in a methodical effort to build a 2008 presidential campaign machine that is drawing supporters of President Bush despite the sometimes rocky history between the two men.
Juan Williams / Washington Post:
Banish The Bling  —  A Culture of Failure Taints Black America  —  Have we taken our eyes off the prize?  The civil rights movement continues, but the struggle today is not so much in the streets as in the home — and with our children.  If systemic racism remains a reality …
Roger Scruton / Opinion Journal:
'Islamofascism'  —  Beware of a religion without irony.  —  The term "Islamofascism" was introduced by the French writer Maxine Rodinson (1915-2004) to describe the Iranian Revolution of 1978.  Rodinson was a Marxist, who described as "fascist" any movement of which he disapproved.
Christopher Lee / Washington Post:
Cold War Missiles Target of Blackout  —  The Bush administration has begun designating as secret some information that the government long provided even to its enemy the former Soviet Union: the numbers of strategic weapons in the U.S. nuclear arsenal during the Cold War.
Michael Barone / Real Clear Politics:
Our Covert Enemies  —  In our war against Islamo-fascist terrorism, we face enemies both overt and covert.  The overt enemies are, of course, the terrorists themselves.  Their motives are clear: They hate our society because of its freedoms and liberties, and want to make us all submit to their totalitarian form of Islam.
Discussion: Decision '08 and Dr. Sanity
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Bush's Brain  —  The president just doesn't communicate anymore.  —  When a U.S. president has a 40% approval rating, critics declare open season.  Last week Britain's Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott had to deny a report that he had called the Bush administration "crap" …
Ben Taylor / Daily Mail:
Firebrand Islamic academic: 'dying for your beliefs is just'  —  A British-based Muslim radical appeared to back suicide bombing yesterday when he claimed that dying for your beliefs was 'just'.  —  Dr Azzam Tamimi told an 8,000-strong crowd that standing up for your principles was the 'greatest act of martyrdom'.
Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
For Kurds, a Long Wait for Justice  —  Hussein Begins Trial Today for 1988 Offensive That Used Chemical Attacks  —  Mustafa Arab Youssef walked up the grimy, stone steps of the crumbling, sand-colored Nizarkeh fort.  As he reached the second floor, his neighbor Haji Mohammed pointed …
Channing Joseph / New York Sun:
Police Chief Says He Exaggerated Post-Katrina Crime  —  The New Orleans police chief during Hurricane Katrina, Eddie Compass, says he unnecessarily "heightened people's fears" by repeating unconfirmed reports of out-of-control crime in the city during the aftermath of the storm …
Discussion: Daily Pundit
Times of London:
If you want sharia law, you should go and live in Saudi  —  Shahid Malik, the Labour MP, explains why he told fellow Muslims that if they don't like Britain they should pack their bags  —  Scotland Yard described it as a plot "to commit mass murder on an unimaginable scale".
Simon Walters / Daily Mail:
Blair 'feels betrayed by Bush on Lebanon'  —  The alliance between George Bush and Tony Blair is in danger after it was revealed that the Prime Minister believes the President has 'let him down badly' over the Middle East crisis.  —  A senior Downing Street source said that, privately …
Robert Weller / Associated Press:
Experts Praise Royal Treatment of Karr  —  Authorities probably had a very good reason for allowing JonBenet Ramsey murder suspect John Mark Karr to live it up on the 15-hour flight to the United States, legal experts say — they wanted him to talk.  —  Denver attorney Larry Pozner …
Donald Lambro / Washington Times:
Not all polls predicting doom for GOP  —  Voters are said to be in a sour, anti-Republican mood this year, but some polls have contradictory findings that indicate voters aren't thrilled with the Democrats either and could change their minds by Election Day.
Discussion: Redstate
 
 
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Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Pakistanis Find U.S. an Easier Fit Than Britain
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
August 22: Tuesday, Not Doomsday
Drudge Report:
BUCHANAN DECLARES: THIRD WORLD CONQUEST OF AMERICA
USA Today:
Katrina struggle goes on for many
Guardian:
CIA's secret UK bank trawl may be illegal
Los Angeles Times:
Desert Connections  —  A real estate project is on track …
Reuters:
Iran: No end to uranium enrichment
Rana Fil / tomgrossmedia.com:
Suha Arafat "remarries" (& anti-Hizbullah comment starts W. Bank wedding riot)
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John Donnelly / Boston Globe:
And now for the good news
Discussion: Miss Kelly
Joseph Goldstein / New York Sun:
Columbia-Educated Doctor Will Argue He Had To Help Al Qaeda
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Faiz / Think Progress:
McCain Calls For Escalation In Iraq, Suggests Putting More Troops On The Ground
James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:
Washington Post Gunning for George Allen
New York Post:
DID OSAMA LUST FOR  —  WHITNEY?  —  OSAMA bin Laden …
Discussion: Tim Blair
Jeffrey Chester / The Nation:
Congress Poised to Unravel the Internet
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
World is watching as Iraq war tests U.S. mettle
Discussion: QandO, Power Line and USS Neverdock
Robert Dreyfuss / Washington Monthly:
A Higher Power  —  James Baker puts Bush's Iraq policy into rehab.
 

 
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