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Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Army, Marine Corps To Ask for More Troops — The Army and Marine Corps are planning to ask incoming Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Congress to approve permanent increases in personnel, as senior officials in both services assert that the nation's global military strategy has outstripped their resources.
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Bush Delays Speech on Iraq Until January — President Bush will wait until after the holidays to speak to the nation about a new strategy in Iraq, a strategy he said today will be designed to establish a free and self-sufficient country that will be an ally in the battle against extremists.
New York Times:
White House to Delay Shift on Iraq Until '07 — The White House said Tuesday that President Bush would delay presenting any new strategy for Iraq until early next year, as officials suggested that Mr. Bush's advisers were locked in internal debates on several fronts about how to proceed.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Just Call Him Tony 'I Don't Know' Snow — To paraphrase Howard Baker's immortal question: What didn't Tony Snow know, and when didn't he know it? — The answer: A lot, and frequently. — When will President Bush roll out his new Iraq policy? "We do not know," Snow said at yesterday's White House briefing.
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Greg Jefferson / MySanAntonio.com:
Rodriguez defeats Bonilla — U.S. Rep. Henry Bonilla conceded defeat to former congressman Ciro Rodriguez in a stunning upset that completed the Democratic takeover of Congress. — The Republican incumbent lost Bexar County for the first time in his political career Tuesday night …
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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Saudis Give a Grim What If Should U.S. Opt to Leave Iraq — Saudi Arabia has told the Bush administration that it might provide financial backing to Iraqi Sunnis in any war against Iraq's Shiites if the United States pulls its troops out of Iraq, according to American and Arab diplomats.
Nazila Fathi / New York Times:
Israel Fading, Iran's Leader Tells Deniers of Holocaust — A two-day gathering of Holocaust deniers and white supremacists ended Tuesday with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad welcoming participants in his office and telling them Israel would not survive long. — "The Zionist regime …
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Audrey Hudson / Washington Times:
Muslim pilgrims urged to complain — American Muslims making a religious pilgrimage to Mecca are being encouraged to file civil rights complaints if they feel discriminated against by airlines. — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), citing what it called the "airport profiling" …
Val Prieto / Babalu Blog:
fidel castro Is Dead? (Updated) — Been getting quite a bit of traffic via searches with "castro death" and "is castro dead" and "castro death rumors" the past couple of days so I thought I'd go ahead and clear that whole mess up right now. — Barring any unforeseen actions such as …
Washington Post:
Illegal Workers Arrested In Identity Theft Sweep — Federal agents targeting illegal immigrants raided meatpacking plants in six states yesterday, arresting hundreds of workers on the uncommon charge of identity theft and shutting down the world's second-largest meat processing company for much of the day.
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Democrats Consider Outside Ethics Panel — House Democrats are seriously exploring the creation of an independent ethics arm to enforce new rules on travel, lobbying, gifts and other issues that Democrats intend to put in place on taking power next month. — Senior party officials …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Clinton hires faith guru — Burns Strider, one of the Democratic Party's leading strategists on winning over evangelicals and other values-driven voters, will join Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as she prepares to launch her 2008 presidential campaign.
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Julian E. Barnes / Los Angeles Times:
Pentagon's plan: More U.S. troops in Iraq — Boosting presence and aid, and an anti-Sadr offensive, carry risks but offer the best path to victory, military officials say. — WASHINGTON — As President Bush weighs new policy options for Iraq, strong support has coalesced in the Pentagon behind …
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
The Washington Post and authoritarianism — then and now — The more one thinks about The Washington Post's warm editorial embrace yesterday of Augusto Pinochet (as well as its affirmation of Jeane Kirkpatrick's general affection for right-wing dictatorships), the more extraordinary it seems.
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David Burge / iowahawk:
KOFI TALK — [ed. note - found in a remodeling dumpster at 48th and FDR Drive: first draft of Kofi Annan's valediction] — Nearly 50 years ago, when I arrived in Minnesota as a student fresh from Africa, I had much to learn. For example, the concept of "connecting flights," …
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Anthony H. Cordesman / New York Times:
One War We Can Still Win — NO one can return from visiting the front in Afghanistan without realizing there is a very real risk that the United States and NATO will lose their war with Al Qaeda, the Taliban and the other Islamist movements fighting the Afghan government.
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