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Robin Wright / Washington Post:
U.S. Considers Ending Outreach to Insurgents — The Bush administration is deliberating whether to abandon U.S. reconciliation efforts with Sunni insurgents and instead give priority to Shiites and Kurds, who won elections and now dominate the government, according to U.S. officials.
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Washington Post:
Iraq Panel to Urge Pullout Of Combat Troops by '08 — The bipartisan Iraq Study Group plans to recommend withdrawing nearly all U.S. combat units from Iraq by early 2008 while leaving behind troops to train, advise and support the Iraqis, setting the first goal for a major drawdown of U.S. forces …
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Idea of Rapid Withdrawal From Iraq Seems to Fade — In the cacophony of competing plans about how to deal with Iraq, one reality now appears clear: despite the Democrats' victory this month in an election viewed as a referendum on the war, the idea of a rapid American troop withdrawal is fast receding as a viable option.
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
This Is Realism? — Iran and Syria Won't Be Riding to Our Rescue — Now that the "realists" have ridden into town gleefully consigning the Bush doctrine to the ash heap of history, everyone has discovered the notion of interests, as if it were some new idea thought up by James Baker and the Iraq Study Group.
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Captain's Quarters, Matthew Yglesias, Hyscience, Blue Crab Boulevard, Middle Earth Journal and PrairiePundit
Laura Rozen / American Prospect:
Get the Memo — A readers' guide to Stephen Hadley's reflections on Iraq. — This Wednesday, the day that President Bush was to meet with Iraqi prime minister Nouri Al Maliki in Jordan, The New York Times published a classified memo prepared by National Security advisor Stephen Hadley and his staff …
MSNBC:
Report: Italian tests positive for deadly toxin — Academic had lunch with ex-spy on day he fell ill; autopsy under way … LONDON - An Italian security expert who met with a former KGB agent the day the ex-spy fell fatally ill with radiation poisoning has also tested positive for the substance, British media reported Friday.
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Sky News:
Radiation Hits Second Man — An Italian academic who met a former Russian spy on the day he was allegedly poisoned has tested positive for radiation. — Mario Scaramella was found to have isotope Polonium-210 in his body. — He had lunch with ex-security agent Alexander Litvinenko …
Discussion:
War and Piece
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
McCain Courts Crucial Support of Governors — Last anyone checked, Senator John McCain of Arizona is not — and has never been — a governor. — But no matter. Mr. McCain turned up on Thursday morning at the Doral Golf Resort and Spa here for a guerrillalike visit to the annual meeting of the Republican Governors Association.
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Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:GOP Must Correct Its Mistakes, Mehlman Says
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Blue Crab Boulevard
Boston Globe:
Illegal immigrants toiled for governor — Guatemalans say firm hired them — This story was reported by Jonathan Saltzman and Maria Cramer of the Globe staff and by Globe correspondent Connie Paige and was written by Saltzman. — SUCHITEPEQUEZ, Guatemala — Outside his aqua-colored concrete house here …
Cameron W. Barr / Washington Post:
Security Of Electronic Voting Is Condemned — Paper Systems Should Be Included, Agency Says — Paperless electronic voting machines used throughout the Washington region and much of the country "cannot be made secure," according to draft recommendations issued this week by a federal agency …
Associated Press:
Aides: Pelosi taps Reyes to head intelligence committee … WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi has chosen a Border-Patrol-agent-turned-congressman to lead the House intelligence committee, according to congressional aides. — Democratic leaders are contacting congressional …
Hotline On Call:
As Obama Moves, Clinton Team Starts To Interview, Quietly — Select members of Sen. Hillary Clinton's political team have started to interview Democrats who might one day fill senior and mid-level positions in Clinton's yet-to-be-announced presidential campaign.
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Democratic Power Struggle — The most important tension within the new Democratic majority in the House of Representatives is not between liberals and conservatives or free traders and fair traders. It is between older members who once enjoyed the power and perks of majority status …
Discussion:
Ezra Klein
Richard Beales / Financial Times:
Dollar slides as US business slows — The dollar suffered sharp falls on Thursday, hit by reports of weak US business activity and a benign inflation picture. — The euro rose .7 per cent against the dollar to $1.3247 by late afternoon in New York after data from Chicago purchasing managers indicated …
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