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Diplomat: U.S. arrogant, stupid in Iraq … (CNN) — A senior U.S. State Department diplomat told Arab satellite network Al Jazeera that there is a strong possibility history will show the United States displayed "arrogance" and "stupidity" in its handling of the Iraq war.
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David S. Cloud / New York Times:
U.S. to Hand Iraq a New Timetable on Security Role — The Bush administration is drafting a timetable for the Iraqi government to address sectarian divisions and assume a larger role in securing the country, senior American officials said. — Details of the blueprint …
Observer:
Britain 'risking defeat in Afghanistan' — Field Marshal Sir Peter Inge, the former head of Britain's armed forces, has broken ranks to launch an attack on the current military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, warning that British forces risk defeat in Afghanistan.
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Asra Q. Nomani / Washington Post:
Clothes Aren't the Issue — MORGANTOWN, W.Va. When dealing with a "disobedient wife," a Muslim man has a number of options. First, he should remind her of "the importance of following the instructions of the husband in Islam." If that doesn't work, he can "leave the wife's bed."
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Gaius / Blue Crab Boulevard:
"They Should Beat Them Lightly" — The words of Mahmoud Shalash, an imam from Lexington, Kentucky, as quoted by Asra Q. Nomani in an op-ed in the Washington Post. That is the answer she got when she protested to the imam about his lecture to about 100 men about how to treat their wives.
Byron Calame / New York Times:
Can 'Magazines' of The Times Subsidize News Coverage? — A PERFUME critic? Yes, The Times now has one. Chandler Burr's Scent Strip column appears in the high-gloss T: The New York Times Style Magazine, where the often-fluffy lifestyle coverage is a world apart from the kind of journalism in the daily sections of the paper.
Nico / Think Progress:
Bush: 'We've Never Been Stay The Course' — During an interview today on ABC's This Week, President Bush tried to distance himself from what has been his core strategy in Iraq for the last three years. George Stephanopoulos asked about James Baker's plan to develop a strategy for Iraq that is …
WMC-TV:
Ford Jr. shows up at Corker event uninvited — Harold Ford Jr. showed up uninvited at a campaign event for rival Republican Bob Corker at a private charter airstrip in Memphis this morning. Corker had scheduled the media event earlier this week. — News reporters were surprised …
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Jeff Jacoby / Boston Globe:
If we had known then... WAS IT a mistake to go to war in Iraq? The latest voice to say so is that of conservative commentator Jonah Goldberg, National Review Online's shrewd editor-at-large and, until last week, a supporter of the war. — Goldberg hasn't become a John Murtha clone …
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Washington Post:
Democrats Strengthen Chances For Senate — Democrats in the past two weeks have significantly improved their chances of taking control of the Senate, according to polls and independent analysts, with the battle now focused intensely on three states in the Midwest and upper South: Missouri, Tennessee and Virginia.
Walter F. Roche Jr. / Los Angeles Times:
Bush's family profits from 'No Child' act — A company headed by President Bush's brother and partly owned by his parents is benefiting from Republican connections and federal dollars targeted for economically disadvantaged students under the No Child Left Behind Act.
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Rank Would Guide Pelosi As She Chose Chairmen — If Democrats win control in November, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) has decided to award committee chairmanships based almost entirely on seniority, ensuring that the House would feature far more minority faces, and some liberal firebrands, in key posts.
Jules Crittenden / Boston Herald:
Blog of war now camouflaged — When something good is happening in the military, you can rely on someone high up and behind the lines to try to kill it. Slowly. Bureaucratically. Bleed the life out of it. — That is what is happening to milblogging, the Internet phenomenon …
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Late Nite FDL: Failing Upward — I've always maintained that the lefty blogosphere appears to be more cohesive than it actually is because we've been united together in opposition to the mind-numbing irrationality of people who think a petri dish full of blastocycts is worth more than the life …
Christina Bellantoni / Washington Times:
Wilder advises Webb to make stance clear — RICHMOND — Mayor L. Douglas Wilder, a former governor and one of the state's leading Democrats, has some advice for his party's U.S. Senate nominee James H. Webb Jr. — let voters know what you stand for. — "The question is …
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