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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 …
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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.
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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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:Bush Is Steadfast In Refusing Policy Change In Iraq
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The Carpetbagger Report
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.)
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.
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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 …
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" …
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.
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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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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."
USA Today:
GOP counts on Rove to head off disaster — WASHINGTON — Karl Rove was waiting for the Southwest Airlines flight to New Hampshire to take off in June when his attorney sent him a welcome four-word message on his BlackBerry: "Fitzgerald called. Case over."
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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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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