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4:15 PM ET, December 7, 2006

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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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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 …
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.
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 …
New York Post:
THE COUNSEL OF COWARDS  —  After nine laborious months …
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
Ralph Peters / New York Post:
FRANKLY INCENSED: UNWISE MEN BEAR GIFTS FOR BUTCHERS
Discussion: alicublog, PrairiePundit and Don Surber
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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Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
A DAY OF INFAMY  —  PEARL HARBOR FROM AIEA HEIGHTS, DECEMBER 7, 1941
Discussion: A Blog For All and Macsmind
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William M. Arkin / Early Warning:
Not What the American or Iraqi People Want
Discussion: Eschaton and Political Animal
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
PARIS' PEACE PLAN
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 … WASHINGTON (CNN) — After talks with his top Iraq war ally President Bush on Thursday indicated that Iran and Syria might be included in regional talks about Iraq, if they meet certain conditions.  —  Speaking a day after a bipartisan report called …
Cillizzac / The Fix:
McCain Continues to Win Over Bush Insiders  —  Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) continues to recruit top GOP political operatives in expectation of a presidential run.  According to a source close to the McCain operation, the candidate has lined up Terry Nelson to serve as campaign manager …
Discussion: MyDD and Taylor Marsh
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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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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 …
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 …
Washington Post:
From Hundreds Of Sources, Panel Forged Consensus  —  Intense Talks Bridged Ideological Divide  —  After all the testimony and fact-finding, after all the white papers and working groups, after the flak-jacket, bombs-in-the-background visit to Baghdad, it came down to the same issue …
Jed Babbin / Real Clear Politics:
Exit Rumsfeld, Smiling  —  One day in the next two weeks there will be a departure ceremony at the Pentagon.  Flags will fly, bands will play and the liberal media will calumniate.  Should the president choose to add the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the other honors rendered …
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.
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 …
U.S. Newswire:
Media Shows Irrational Hysteria on Global Warming  —  "The Public Has Been Vastly Misinformed," NCPA's Deming Tells Senate Committee  —  Contact: Sean Tuffnell of the National Center for Policy Analysis, 972-308-6481 or sean.tuffnell@ncpa.org  —  WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 /U.S. Newswire …
Discussion: Vox Popoli, Iowa Voice and Daimnation!
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.
Discussion: Blogometer
 
 
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Ned Parker / Times of London:
'I'll flee the country as soon as the US leaves'
Pajamas Media:
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