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Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
Threats Wrapped in Misunderstandings — The Iraq Study Group's prescriptions hinge on a fragile Iraqi government's ability to achieve national reconciliation and security at a time when the country is fractured along sectarian lines, its security forces are ineffective and competing visions threaten …
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Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
Will Iraq Study Group's Plan Work on the Battlefield? — The military recommendations issued yesterday by the Iraq Study Group are based more on hope than history and run counter to assessments made by some of its own military advisers. — Ever since the invasion of Iraq in 2003 …
New York Times:
Welcome Political Cover — When President Bush insisted that the Iraq Study Group would not provide cover for the White House to chart a "graceful exit" of American troops, he was missing the whole point. The much-anticipated report from the bipartisan panel is precisely about political cover.
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Niles Lathem / New York Post:
IRAQ 'APPEASE' SQUEEZE ON W. — * PANEL KISSES UP TO IRAN & SYRIA — * PLAN WOULD PULL TROOPS OUT IN '08 — What do you think of the report's recommendations? Click the discussion board link below the photo to post your comments. — WASHINGTON - The Iraq Study Group report delivered …
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Victor Davis Hanson / Real Clear Politics:
Our Pearl Harbor — On Dec. 7, 1941 - 65 years ago this week - pilots from a Japanese carrier force bombed Pearl Harbor. They killed 2,403 Americans, most of them service personnel, while destroying much of the American fleet and air forces stationed in Hawaii.
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Jaymes Song / Associated Press:
Pearl Harbor survivors meet for last time — PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii - With their number quickly dwindling, survivors of Pearl Harbor will gather Thursday one last time to honor those killed by the Japanese 65 years ago, and to mark a day that lives in infamy.
Kirsten Scharnberg / Chicago Tribune:
Pearl Harbor survivors gather for `final reunion' — HONOLULU — Donald Robinett came directly to the sign-in area for Pearl Harbor survivors when he arrived here this week. — "I am trying to find my shipmates," the 89-year-old veteran announced excitedly. "I want to see which ones are here."
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Gregory Scoblete / TCS Daily:
What Rumsfeld's Critics Don't Get — Many Iraq war supporters greeted the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld with a sigh of relief, if not a quiet cheer. — Neoconservatives like the Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol and war historian Frederick Kagan began clamoring …
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Senate approves Gates as defense secretary
Senate approves Gates as defense secretary
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Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Senate Confirms Gates as Defense Secretary
Senate Confirms Gates as Defense Secretary
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Justice Grover Versus Justice Oscar — SCALIA AND BREYER SELL VERY DIFFERENT CONSTITUTIONAL WORLDVIEWS. — If judicial confirmation hearings in the Senate were one-tenth as illuminating as last night's debate between Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer at the Capitol Hilton …
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Associated Press:
Mixed reaction to Cheney's daughter's pregnancy … WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative leaders voiced dismay Wednesday at news that Mary Cheney, the lesbian daughter of Dick Cheney, is pregnant, while a gay-rights group said the vice president faces "a lifetime of sleepless nights" …
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T. F. Boggs / t.f. boggs:
What we should and should not do: An Authoritative Voice... After watching the Iraq Survey Group press conference today I am a firm believer that all politicians are idiots. Okay well not all of them but they all have a problem understanding reality. If any politician is reading …
Jeanne Cummings / Wall Street Journal:
Postcampaign Lobbying Thrives — Democrats Are Fêted — Ahead of Push — For Stricter Ethics Rules — WASHINGTON — Democrats may be promising a clampdown on lobbyist freebies once they take control of Congress. But ahead of that push, party leaders are collecting lobbyists' checks …
Ned Parker / Times of London:
'I'll flee the country as soon as the US leaves' — The Iraqi sergeant has dodged bullets from the al-Mahdi Army and traded fire with Sunni insurgents. — Yet in his years with the Iraqi Army he has learnt one simple lesson: once the US military pulls back in Iraq, he should leave the country if he wants to survive.
Arianna Huffington / Los Angeles Times:
Hillary's too vane to be president — It didn't matter much that Sen. Clinton is a fickle leader — until Obama came along. — WHILE THE country is urgently engaged in finding a way out of the quagmire in Iraq, Hillary Rodham Clinton is busy holding private dinners for key Democrats …
Kimberley A. Strassel / Opinion Journal:
Trusts Busted — The seamy underside of asbestos litigation. — Harry Kananian died in the year 2000 of mesothelioma—a cancer almost always caused by asbestos. But the legacy that may survive him is the role he is posthumously playing in exposing evidence of asbestos litigation fraud.
Pajamas Media:
SPECIAL TO PJM: Iran Supreme Leader Hospitalized. Condition Grave. — Three days ago, Iran's dictator, Supreme Leader Ayatollah ali Khamenei, was rushed to the vast medical facility traditionally known as "Vanak" hospital (it now has an Arabic name that means "the 12th Imam Hospital") …