memeorandum: Arabs Say Report Shows Bush's Failure (Maggie Michael/Associated Press)

3:35 PM ET, December 7, 2006

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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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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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Maggie Michael / Associated Press:

Arabs Say Report Shows Bush's Failure — Many Arabs on Thursday interpreted an American advisory panel's bleak assessment of President Bush's Iraq policies as proof of Washington's failure in the Middle East. — But others worried about the consequences if the U.S. follows …

Discussion: Blogs of War, TigerHawk, PoliPundit.com and Jihad Watch

Guardian:

Warning over spiralling Iraq refugee crisis — Matt Weaver and agencies — The surging violence in Iraq has created what is becoming the biggest refugee crisis in the world, a humanitarian group said today. — A report (pdf) by Washington-based Refugees International said an influx …

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Ralph Peters / New York Post:
FRANKLY INCENSED: UNWISE MEN BEAR GIFTS FOR BUTCHERS

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Victor Davis Hanson / Townhall.com:

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

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Kirsten Scharnberg / Chicago Tribune:
Pearl Harbor survivors gather for `final reunion'

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Dan / Riehl World View:
We Have No Claim To Pearl Harbor Day

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Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
A DAY OF INFAMY — PEARL HARBOR FROM AIEA HEIGHTS, DECEMBER 7, 1941

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Michelle Malkin:
Remembering Pearl Harbor

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Fred Kaplan / Slate:

So Much for Plan B — THE IRAQ STUDY GROUP CHICKENS OUT. — So many careers and reputations have been ravaged by Iraq. Even James Baker, the canniest of operators, has now met his Waterloo. — The report of the Iraq Study Group—which Baker co-chaired with Lee Hamilton …

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Kenneth R. Bazinet / NY Daily News:
Hawks meet to lick wounds

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International Herald Tribune:
Transcript: Press conference

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White House:

President Bush Meets with British Prime Minister Tony Blair — Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building — PRESIDENT BUSH: Thank you all. Please be seated. I just had a good visit with Prime Minister Tony Blair. I appreciate you coming back, Mr. Prime Minister.

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CNN: Bush tells Iran, Syria how they can join Iraq talks

Johanna Neuman / Los Angeles Times:

A pregnant pause in right wing — Social conservatives remain silent or temper their criticism about news that Cheney's gay daughter is expecting. — WASHINGTON — No Republican in Washington is more beloved by social conservatives than Vice President Dick Cheney, who with his wife …

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Associated Press:
Mixed reaction to Cheney's daughter's pregnancy

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Political Radar:

McCain Picks Campaign Chief — ABC News' David Chalian Reports: For the third time in as many days, a top-tier presidential hopeful is revealing who will serve as his/her campaign manager. On Tuesday we learned former Rep. David Bonior (D-MI) plans to head up the day to day operations …

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Cillizzac / The Fix:
McCain Continues to Win Over Bush Insiders

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Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:

Democratic Wave in Congress Further Erodes Moderation in GOP — Iowa Rep. Jim Leach (R) seemed a natural to weather voters' antiwar sentiment this fall. His independent streak and moderate views had engendered the allegiance of his Democratic-leaning district for the past 30 years …

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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:

Is It January Yet? — Not that I want to rush right past Christmas morning at our house or anything (because, really, The Peanut is at the perfect age this year where the whole tree and lights and Santa are magic, and that is a LOT of fun)...but I've spent a little time trying to figure …

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John Heilprin / Associated Press:

EPA may drop lead air pollution limits — WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is considering doing away with health standards that cut lead from gasoline, widely regarded as one of the nation's biggest clean-air accomplishments. — Battery makers, lead smelters, refiners all have lobbied …

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Austan Goolsbee / New York Times:

Lean Left? Lean Right? News Media May Take Their Cues From Customers — When Matt Lauer declared on the "Today" show last week that NBC would start referring to the conflict in Iraq as a "civil war," he inadvertently started his own civil war within the news media.

Discussion: Beat the Press, CBS News, Ezra Klein, BuzzMachine and Economist's View

Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:

The GOP's Southern Exposure — You've seen the numbers and understand that America is growing steadily less white. You try to push your party, the Grand Old Party, ahead of this curve by taking a tolerant stance on immigration and making common cause with some black churches.

Discussion: The Agonist, The Mahablog and NewsBusters.org

Extreme Mortman:

Top Ten Funniest Political Moments Of 2006 — Try to name the funniest moments in politics this year, and you'll immediately think of violent assaults with deadly, hilarious weapons. Yes, this was the year that politics met broad physical humor. And crime. Lots and lots of crime.

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